Word: dying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the entire staff of the University from President Conant down to the lowliest instructor keeping strictly mum, the Cambridge Council's fling for publicity by demanding that Harvard be made a separate and distinct municipality began to die down last night. As a reckoning was made, the following facts had come out of the flareup...
When she brought him his meals and mail, Jim told her she was "sweet" and "beautiful, & had mighty nice clothes and a pretty voice; Lulu Belle was glad. He said he guessed he'd die in the State's gas chamber; Lulu Belle was heartstricken. He said if only she would help him escape he'd go to church, be a good boy, come back for her in time. Lulu Belle believed...
They have a young actor and actress die backstage on the first night of the Alexandria's career, and thereafter these two -along with another dead actor-appear as ghosts, whisper from the wings, declaim before the footlights, bob up in boxes, feverishly exhorting the theatre -their theatre-not to die. In Act I this disembodied trio communes with Shakespeare, in Act II with...
...comes from a popular I.W.W. song, The Preacher and the Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...
...been that air activity there might conflict with traffic at the Army's Boiling Field, just across the river. That was ironed out, too, by a plan for a central control tower submitted by Major General Oscar Westover, Army Air Corps chief, just before he flew off to die in a crash at Burbank, Calif., last month...