Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...master from Bethlehem. I am getting old [66]. ... I have learned a lot since I started as a boy with Mr. Carnegie. I learned a lot about steel, but more important I learned a lot about life. Ah, that is the thing. Be happy. . . . When my time comes to die I do not want to be surrounded by granite and marble. I want to be amidst steel, beams and 'Ls' where I have been happy all my life. I will now leave you to go back to my business but I again will say-be good natured...
...most distinguished one-time victim of Elinor Wylie's fascinations predicts of her work that it will sicken and die of its own perfume. For all its vengeful malice the prophecy is certainly justified by so cloying a title as Trivial Breath, and further substantiated by much that follows the title. Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason. An occasional poem "makes sense," but the sense sounds affected. Sorrow is, for instance, one of the emotions the poet rather fancies, and so she mentions it prettily, knowingly...
...program follows: Psalm 19 Marcello Chorale Prelude--"O man, bewail thine awful sin" Bach Professor Davison God is my Shepherd Dvorak I will sing thee songs of gladness Dvorak Miss Loring Prelude and Fugue in G major Bach Professor Davison Du bist die Ruh Schubert Wie Melodien ziehy es Brahms Miss Loring Sketch Schumann Chorale in T minor Franck...
Addressing the Society, famed Obstetrician Dr. Arnaldo de Moraes said: "One out of every 133 mothers in Rio de Janeiro die in childbirth. True this compares favorably with the mortality of soldiers, in the Great War, when one out of every 50 died. But gentlemen!-we must make it possible for Brazilian mothers to march joyously to maternity, without the forebodings of soldiers marching to battle...
...Barry, mistress of France's King Louis XV, had several beds. The most famed is to be put on the auction block, along with other antiques, in Paris, on Dec. 6, by the present owner, Comtesse de Segur (Cécile Sorel), actress of the Comédie-Française...