Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pope he leads a merry life, merry life He's free from trouble, care and strife, care and strife He drinks the best of Rhenish wine I would the Pope's gay life were mine...
Many pencils poised questioningly over the name of Hon. Sir John William Fortescue, librarian at Windsor Castle from 1905 to 1926, author of a life of Wellington, editor of the correspondence of George III. The pencils poised also over the name of Sir John's brother, Capt. Hon. Sir Seymour Fortescue, equerry-in-waiting to King George since 1893, author of a book of memoirs, Looking Back...
Ordinary murder brings life imprisonment at the new farm prison on the Isle of Pines. Sometimes long-term prisoners there are prompted to escape. Then they are shot quickly and carefully in the back...
Broadway was lately threatened with a momentary darkening of all its blazing electrical signs, as a gesture by the sign-owners to compel attention to the difference such signs make in a city's trade, night-life and general atmosphere. On Oct. 21, all the Broadways of the U. S. will be darkened at a concerted moment, and then brightened slowly to a crescendo of light such as they have seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison...
...doctor to do? The patient may be mangled in an accident. He may have cancer, syphilis, some other horror. He wants to die quickly, painlessly. Will the doctor help? Always the answer is "no." But sometimes the action is, silently, covertly, yes; for, although ending another's life or helping him to do so is murder before the Law, an overdose of merciful morphine can always be defended...