Word: dieingly
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...Adjourned sine die...
Strange to say, politicians and political observers regard this expression as entirely sincere. They characterize him as a sweet, if not a naive old man, and many feel sure that he will be the Democratic nominee. It is suggested that at his age even the possibility that he might die in office, if elected, is an added attraction to him as a candidate, just as his lack of enemies is his present asset...
...Adjourned sine die...
...recent French Presidential election reminds one of Mark Twain's famous and often quoted French duel, in which the vanquished gentleman exclaimed with such exquisite pathos. "I die I die that France may live!" With a premonition of what was to befall. M. Painleve remarked on Thursday. "Personalities are nothing. It is the Republic alone that matters." One regrets that such beautiful unselfishness is not always displayed in domestic polities...
Henry Ford: "One George F. Johnson (shoes), in the May Endicott-Johnson Workers' Magazine, scored me for my treatment of employes. Said he: 'If what he [Henry Ford] is reported to have said is true, he is likely to die one of the greatest failures the world has ever known, without the love, confidence, respect and good-will of his fellow-workers who helped to create his monumental business...