Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lovely Saints Weelkes Give a Rouse Bahtock Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpneus" Gluck Flute Obligato by Carlton Sprague-Smith Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan Intermission Two Folk Songs The Turtle Dove Arranged by Williams Swansea Town Arranged by Halst The Hundred Pipers Scottish Folk Song Finale from "Die Meistersinger" Wagner
...well enough to call her that, but whatever I said, I said." The Court: "It is suggested by the plaintiff that you may wish to apologize." Sari Fedak: "What? Certainly not! Why, if I read that I had apologized to Vilma Banky in tomorrow's papers I would die of apoplexy!" When counsel had presented their arguments, the Court declared: "No witness has been produced who actually heard the imputed words uttered by the defendant. . . . The case is dismissed. ... I will add my personal conviction that between two great actresses, each such an adornment to the national stage, there...
Treatment depended upon his observation that the brains of people who die of sleeping sickness are relatively waterlogged, and upon the fact that his hypertonic iodine solution demanded water in quantities. He injected his iodine (which was not poisonous) directly into the blood of patients sick with brain lethargy. Through the blood the iodine drained water from the brain...
...Died. Rosa Sucher, 78, famed oldtime Wagnerian opera soprano; almost penniless, at Eschweiler, Germany. In her years of glory she was appointed court singer and decorated by Emperor William I. The early failure of her voice was reputedly caused by the midnight suppers which she arranged for her conductor-husband's delectation. Once, at Beyrouth she ate a full bottle of anchovies between the first and second acts of Die Walkure...
...birth rate is a highly ethical proposal. I shall say no more. If civilization advances, it will come. The forces on the other side are the forces of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. They are the same forces that caused the poor savage of the Polynesian wilds to die of fright because he ate the king's food unwittingly. Are we to be ruled forever by tabu