Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neighboring colony, he was deeply embarrassed, some said disgraced. With fine candor he accepted his responsibility for what had happened, resigned his office, set off for Rhodesia, an undeveloped portion of Africa up country, where he labored before his health broke and he went back to Cape Town to die, to build into the empire the colony that bears his name...
...flashing eyes, he declared: "Don't be led astray by the idea that Fascismo is approaching its end. We may pass through a crisis, we may have some dark moments, but a party like the Fascist Party, which has such a wonderful history of vitality and pugnaciousness, cannot die. If you think it can, you are wrong, and history will prove it to you." Then, with a change of tone - a tone of kindly exhortation instead of domineering challenge - the Premier enunciated his peroration: "The hour is grave, and you know it. But you will be equal...
...Debussy composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other great composers who have written bell-music...
...prominent man recently said: "Most people live their lives and die without ever knowing what they are really capable of doing. They never learn, because they never put themselves to the test." Sophomores, verbum sapienti satis est! The first hundred years are the hardest. The work will be explained tonight at seven o'clock at the Crimson building. Down goes the gauntlet...
...visitor is ushered into the death house of a Western penitentiary. In five hours, Jim Warren is to die for a murder he did not commit. Two hours later, Jim gets out of the electric chair, the visitor out of his orchestra chair and everyone goes home happily. Meanwhile, the action dips into the past and depicts the murder, committed by the daughter of the criminal for whose sake he v;is about to die...