Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion, political dogmatist. Last week he strode into a small routine meeting of the Riverside Republican Club in Manhattan, said that President Coolidge will "declare his unwillingness" to accept the Republican 1928 nomination, that Republicans who try to force a third term on the President are looking for fatal trouble, that only a Wet Republican can carry necessary New York State against Governor Smith or Governor Ritchie, that Prohibition ought to be the issue...
...result of an educational system conducted on this basis, with the school valued on account of the number of students that it can attract, or the advertising value of the stamp that its name can put on the graduate, is fatal to real scholarship. It misses the mark of culture altogether--so that one may say that the more scholars the country has the less scholarship it has to show. The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other, to be regulated by the law of supply...
...your movement has rendered a service to the entire world. The great fear which torments any democratic or socialist leader is that he might be ousted or succeeded by another leader more extremist than himself. It has been said that a continuous course toward the left, a kind of fatal ebullition toward the abyss are the characteristics of all revolutions. Italy has demonstrated that there is a way of dealing with subversive forces. She has found the necessary antidote against the Russian venom...
...feel a distinct sensation of guilt. No doubt these apostles of individual meditation have the friendliest of intentions. But they forget that even a smile under some circumstances may drive a man to madness and that their innocent promenade could possibly have any associations with water dripping with fatal regularity from an Inquisition tank to the head of a victim condemned to die by slow torture...
...France, or Bagdad would have shown that their method is not the way to sway Empires. A whisper in the right ear at the right time has always been much more effective than mountains of resolutions and cohorts of deputations. Publicity where an appointment is concerned is nearly always fatal. The ladies who want things done at Geneva ought to be reminded that a woman can sometimes succeed when she is inconsistent but hardly ever when she is unsubtle...