Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victory. Early in the week the long Chamber debate on the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. M. Briand was kept sharply under fire by those die-hard anti-German militarists, the adherents of former Premier Poincaré. They could see nothing in Locarno but a delusive bait to seduce France from seeking the armaments and the great military alliances upon which they consider that true security from German aggression must rest. Cried M. Maginot, a trusted lieutenant of Poincare: "We cannot vote for the Locarno Treaty, for it means the disarmament of France in front of Germany, who does...
...Vienna, Chancellor Karl Ramek of Die Republik Osterreich signed an impressive looking document, which was likewise autographed by Dr. Edward Benes, Premier of the Ceskoslovenska Republika...
Opera singers die a thousand deaths. In almost every role, the last curtain finds them sprawled across a parapet, pierced by treacherous bullets, boiled in the oil-vat of some inquisitor or crumpled upon a doorstep with their throats, their canary throats, slit from ear to ear. But in life, as everyone knows, opera singers have to be careful of their health. This last reflection was one that occurred to Beniamino Gigli, celebrated tenor, as he sat in a Detroit hotel, one night last week, staring at a piece of paper. He read...
...expedition carried the attempt to reach the top of the world one step farther. The next time it will be done. We have proved one thing. It was never known before that human beings could, with time, acclimatize themselves to high altitudes. We accomplished this thing. Mallary did not die in vain. He showed that the heretofore unconquerable mountain can be conquered. Tonight I shall attempt to show you the romantic fascination and the semi-religious spirit that...
...proverb. "Those on whom the gods smile die young" can never blight athletic fortune, for the smiles of gods of sport are much too transient. Nevertheless, even their passing favor is pleasant. And the University may well seize the moment to observe the recent successes of its teams...