Word: dieingly
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...music-loving Vienna. Her fame grew with her repertoire. A beautiful prima donna has always seemed a phenomenon. Here was one magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter he finished for her his Helen...
...Unknown Warrior. Paul Raynal, who fought in French trenches, wrote the play and it was presented four years ago at the Comédie Français amid the indignant growls of old men. Since then it has been played all over Europe, to great cheers in Germany, and the approval of Bernard Shaw in London. Last week Charles Hopkins, who now has a small theatre of his own in which to produce the plays he likes, unveiled it for Manhattan...
...loves the soldier but she conceals this fact until after she has spent the night with him. In the morning, the soldier's father berates his son for a seduction; whereat the soldier berates in his father selfish and truculent senescence which so blatantly permits the young to die...
...Inside Story. "There will be no war," said Wilson to House in January, 1917. Three months later, the same resolute energy he had expended on maintaining the peace, was doggedly diverted to the pursuit of war. The die cast, Wilson was out to win, and not so much a military victory as a moral conquest of internationalism over autocratic nationalism. But the tangible military victory being prerequisite to the moral conquest, Wilson passionately concerned himself with such tangibles as gold, food, fighting men. And lest he or his people flag, Balfour was sent over, a French mission was sent over...
...unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably bear Harold's child. Harold's unexpected reappearance so confuses the situation that nothing is left for the author but to let Jonathan fall ill and die, clinging to the hand of Rachel...