Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the tombs of the great are gone the isolation of yesterday. The gentlemen of science have now usurped the avocation of Jerry Cruncher and his friends. Better it is for a man to die unknown, unpraised, than to risk perpetuity in a museum of cadavers. Modern research, ill content with probing the affairs of life, probes death. So this boy who once ruled Egypt must stand inspection before a maudlin world, while from far and near come novelty seekers aspiring to gaze for a moment at the death masque of the Pharaoh. Shavian and eternal, the child king suffers...
...Situation. Herr Stresemann and Dr. Luther were admittedly hard pushed last week to find means for securing ratification of the Locarno Pacts by the Reichstag. "The United Patriotic Societies" (a powerful group of die-hard Nationalists) adopted a resolution condemning the Pacts as "unacceptable, because they imply voluntary recognition of the Treaty of Versailles by Germany." The Council of Ambassadors±± at Paris hedged at setting a definite date for the evacuation of Cologne, and much as he wished to do so Herr Stresemann could not give "proofs" that the Allies are going to grant the concessions* promised Germany...
...jailer came to his cell and told him his execution had been stayed. Mr. McCarthy's face brightened, then fell. Said he: "Captain, lemme ask you one favor. Lemme stay in here tonight, Boss, and eat ma meal. Lemme eat that chicken just like I was going to die...
...sure, patients have been known to die, but at least such is not always the case. An interesting sidelight is the following quotation from Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard, as it appeared in an article entitled "Fashions in College Morals" in the current Ladies Home Journal...
...Sacramento, knowledge came to William M. Bowman, pioneer settler, that he like other men must die. He chose his pallbearers, dug a grave, lined it with cement, built a coffin, hewed a stone from native granite. That was 18 years ago when he was 73. Since the Grim Reaper continued to elude him, Mr. Bowman thought of a scheme. He built a flagpole over his grave and attached a flag and halyard. When he feels life departing, he will crawl into the coffin, raise the flag, and the people in the valley, knowing his signal, will climb the hill...