Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitor came last week to the U. S. He was Widgery Thomas, 87, onetime U. S. Minister to Sweden, who has spent most of his life on the southern tip of Scandinavia's peninsula and hopes to die there. He said: "What President Coolidge should do in order to assure that we get the right type of citizens is to wink both eyes at the number of Swedes that come to the United States and forget the restricted immigration quotas...
America understands her movies, for she realizes that there has never been as easy an escape from reality. But America as yet does not live and die by her celluloid deities. From the horse operas of Mr. Mix one would gain the impression that the only buildings west of the Mississippi were log cabins, that the only inhabitants were cowboys and Indians. And life in New York is really not a beaten track between the Ritz and the night clubs...
...good in themselves, as representatives of that lump which American intelligence and native wit must eventually leaven, together they have the power of brute force, coupled with complete dulness--and that force--though like the carnivorous dinosaur, its one time proponent, it eventually die, can, like the name carnivorous dinosaur, cause a lot of trouble. One hopes then, and with all sincerity that Tunney will like a good Marine, defend his country against mental eclipse by refraining from establishing a precedent which could well mean the beginning of the Ivory...
...credit wherewith to keep up her establishment. By this subterfuge, the geisha-house owners remain legally mere landlords. Actually they hold the geisha girls who are in their debt as security until they earn enough to pay off the credits extended them. Though in many cases the geisha die before they are debt free, six years is the approximate period of service after which the geisha are able to retire wth sufficient savings to live in modest comfort...
...dash for the Pole. According to Kudlooktoo, Marvin suddenly "sordlo ilisimajungnaersimasok" ["was like a sane man who for the moment was without the use of his faculties"]. Marvin, Kudlooktoo alleges, ordered Inukitsoq to get off the dog sledge, and proposed to leave him on the ice to die without food-all for no apparent reason. Kudlooktoo thereupon shot Marvin with a rifle, to save Inukitsoq, and the two Eskimos returned to Peary's base claiming that Marvin had been drowned...