Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handle, brown eyes rolling madly, Nelly charged on Wallace, gored him deeply. At the same time showers of buckshot from the guns of shouting farmers added to Wallace's misery, roused his temper. Quickly he raked Nelly's ribs, broke her neck, left her to die, loped across the pasture into a cottage garden. There the Lyme Regis postman, armed with a revolver, stalked the lion through the hollyhocks, shot him dead...
...inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule. In the ambush and retreat to Ait Yacoub, 13 French were killed, 93 wounded, captured or missing. It was the bloodiest fight since red-bearded Abd-el-Krim surrendered...
There are certain phases of every person's life which become disconnected, and for the college graduate the four years spent in getting an education represent the most striking example of this. After graduation a class inevitably breaks up and many close friendships die never to be renewed. And yet in later years when the Yard is merely a memory and the football teams is the only thing he hears about the graduate still retains a sincere feeling of appreciation to the institution that guided his steps for four years...
...Shipping Board announced bids for ships of the United States and the American Merchant Lines, highest bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman, who is head of P. W. Chapman. Inc., of Chicago and Manhattan and whom anyone but a newsman can interview at any time. After a wrangle with die-hard government-owning Senators, the Chapman bid was accepted. Last week the Shipping Board opened bids on ships of the American Diamond and the America France Lines, which operate freighters between U. S. and French, Dutch and Belgian ports. Again Bidder Chapman was high. He offered...
...little walks, rests, games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their ages, impulsively gives her a ruby-and-diamond brooch...