Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization of such size as "the klan", can spring up in America, and gain power enough to take the law into its own hands, there must be something wrong with the law. Like the Vigilantes which existed in the days of '49, this organization will only die when the state is strong enough to crush it, and punish all crimes as well...
...freight train employe should be given a free ride. And the hobos, as such, held high revel not long ago in a well known New York hotel with tomato soup for punch and Irish stew for supper. Remarkable transformation! Fifty years ago the unemployed could do nothing but die quick deaths in the "workus". Now they go abroad in private cars and high-powered automobiles, and dine as guests of the government...
...Symphony Hall Sunday afternoon, the famous Russian basso, Feodor, Challapin, sang before a large and wildly-enthusiastic audience. His programme was as follows: First group: "Aleko", Rachmaninoff; "Yermak Tinofelevitch". Ippolitoff-Ivanoff; "Die beiden Grenadiere", Schumann. Second group: "We parted haughtily", Dargomizhsky; "Pretty Lady" (from "Don Juan"), Mozart: "When the king went forth to war", Koeneman; Volga Boat-song; "Mephisto's Song of the Flea", Mouseorgsky...
...reads the story of the saving of St. Thomas's and the rise of the great names of Perkins and Sawyer. And with a resolve equally high many a college paper has sprung into being, only too often to die an early death from malnutrition or too much competition...
Yesterday at noon the Sixty-seventh Congress assembled in extra session to "clean up the odds and ends" of important legislation before the fourth of next March when it adjourns sine die. The present session with the regular one in December represents the last stand of the departing gladiators...