Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indictment. Every year France sends a dismal shipload of some 700 convicts to her penal colony in French Guiana -north of Brazil, southeast of Venezuela. Here the condemned, one-half of whom die in the first year, eke out a prison sentence with hard labor, followed by continued exile; the avowed purpose being: "expiation of crime, regeneration of the guilty, and the protection of Society." That the purpose has been sadly travestied is common gossip abroad, but Blair Niles went to see for herself...
...powers that make the world pay to laugh allow no national tradition to die quickly, least of all one so bone of their flesh. And America's fond tolerance of collegiatism, if its cause were removed, might bring psychological chaos in its wake. Moreover, it is believed that through John Held alone do youth and age alike recollect emotion in tranquility. To prevent the catastrophic shock of sudden vanishing, as well as for auld lang syne, haven was furnished collegiatism--in the back pages of Judge...
...Circolo Italiano will held its dinner of the year in Room A of the Union this evening at 6.30 o'clock. Ferrante die Ruffano, Italian Consul at Boston, as well as several members of the Circolo, will be present...
...most significant. Two facts stand out in the news of an overwhelming liberal victory: first, that the chauvinist Nationalist party, with its semi monarchical leanings and its vengeful grinding of teeth is unsatisfactory to the nation: second, that Germany is willing to go beyond a mere chiding of its die hard by militarists by supporting the pacifistic and conciliatory policies of Foreign Minister Sudesmann...
...exchanged lusty cheers, and dispersed homeward amid the plaudits of the on-looking through. All told it was one of the most rugged battles the Soldiers Field turf has seen in many a long day. CRIMSON and Lampoon rose in alternate waves of mighty valor; men went down to die for the glory of their teams, and others went down on top of them; hits, runs, errors were scattered with liberal hand by the gods through this the battle of their favored children, and yet as the fury of the storm faded into mud and-drizzle the score stood just...