Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Veterans of the Spanish War banqueting in Baltimore's Southern Hotel last week were startled when an unscheduled speaker arose in their midst. The veterans' commander-in-chief, Thomas W. Payne, had just concluded the evening's big speech, in which he had waved the flag for...
The Spanish War Veterans stirred in their chairs, whispered together. "Sit down," they muttered. "Shut him up!" But the speaker went right on and said his say, for he was a veteran in perfectly good standing. More, he was Captain William S. Ortman, chief of the Capitol police, a body...
No fear of what Mr. Dies might do to him hung over redoubtable Captain Ortman. From Chicago, he enjoys his $2,700-a-year job and smart blue uniform as patronage from Illinois' old Senator J. Ham Lewis. Besides, he explained, his chief quarrel was not with Representative Dies...
†Last week Mr. Dies was rushed to hospital, relieved of a gangrenous appendix.
Everyone takes it for granted that the sun will go on shining until he dies-and, as a matter of lesser interest, for a long time after he dies. Astrophysicists, who believe the solar star-stuff has been hot for billions of years and will be so for billions of...