Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died as he would have preferred to die, in France and at his post of duty, and he goes back to America as he would have liked to go, with the flags of both countries floating over...
...Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly not "listen...
...have 15 or 20 guards around my house. When people hear about you paying a lot of money for a picture they get the idea that your house is lined with gold and they do everything but climb into your bedroom windows. Honest, I wish this thing would die down. I'm sick of hearing about...
...Died. The Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent, 66, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York (Buffalo) ; of heart disease; in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a Canadian clergy- man's son. Longtime Bishop of the Philippines, he there confirmed John Joseph Pershing and began his zealous campaigning against the opium trade. Later he was chief chaplain of the A. E. F. and president of the World Conference on Faith and Order (Lausanne, 1927). Devout and dignified, he became the dominant U. S. Episcopal clergyman. He believed in world peace and church union, was opposed to Prohibition. Years...
...years ago an Oxford student wrote to a friend at Cambridge suggesting a boat race between the two universities. Came the answer: "Your impudence is unparalleled. The sufficiently candid manner in which you talk of 'lasting us out' (!!!) amuses me so much that I am ready to die of laughing. . . ." So the first Oxford-Cambridge race was arranged...