Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Journey's End. The plot itself is not nearly so involved. It is a simple war story of ten men in a dugout during 36 hours that precede a German attack. Their reactions form the basis of the play. They snarl, they laugh, they fight, they cower, they die. Standing out among them is one who hopes for death. He has drowned cowardice with whiskey. He has nothing for which to live. On the eve of the attack there is sent to his company the brother of the girl he loves−the last person in the world...
...this solemn moment," said he, "I wish to be an example for the army. I die tranquilly, with the knowledge that I did what I believed to be my duty, but I counsel all not to follow my course. Now boys, shoot here"−he held his hand over his heart−"don't hit my face...
...authoritatively" that he could live "one week or ten days at most," but already old Campaigner Ferdinand Foch had doubled that span. What matter if Death took him at the next clock-tick? Already he had fooled them all, and a man may call a joke a joke and die with all decorum and honor when...
...worse, the ready spice of polite dinner conversations will now be salted down with the trivialities of unassisted literary search. As for the adolescents of the city, they will again be reduced to a meticulous investigation of the dictionary and other of the standard and immemorial stimuli. But the die is cast, and Joyce is about to cross the Charles...
...Senator Bayard declared: "The very object of the clause looks to the fact that the bill should be returned during the session of the House in which it originated." The Senate passed Senator Edmunds' bill, 29:11. The vote means just this: 29 Senators believed that any adjournment sine die would give occasion for a "pocket veto", while 11 held that any interruption of more than 10 days would suffice. No one seems to have dreamed of suggesting that the "pocket veto" was restricted to the close of the last session of a Congress...