Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mother M. Alphonsa Lathrop, 75-year-old daughter of Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne, widow of Novelist George Parsons Lathrop (died 1898) had established this institution a few years after taking the veil (1899) to provide a place where destitute cancer victims could die in peace. No efforts to cure were made. "So long as they fretted about radium and operations, they were miserable," Dr. John L. Shells, physician to the institution, said only last week. "It seems to me that radium makes them worse, unless it is applied very early. . . .We let them alone and just keep them comfortable, and sometimes...
...Manuel. He becomes involved with most of the queens and several younger persons on this pilgrimage, but at last manages an interview with his old chief. A western god blows him home-by most Rabelaisian means -to bowse, wench, let the absurd legend of Manuel grow, and to die in his sleep...
...traditions of la haute cuisine survive from the days of the great gastronomes. Alexandre Dumas Père sighed: "My books piled one upon another have the stature of a colossus. Who has not read my Three Musketeers? Yet in my heart I desire above all things to die the greatest cook of our time...
Among German arch-Monarchists the events of last week inspired a slogan: "Ballots for Bullets!" None but such ramrod-backed lantern-jawed die-hards believed that the 45,000,000 Germans who abstained from voting last week will ever ballot Wilhelm back upon the throne from which he was brought down by bullets...
...Die-hard Drys in both Sweden and Norway continue to clamor for prohibition à l'Americaine...