Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventh Inning Raily Fatal...
...political and diplomatic drama, from the Franco-Russian point of view for several reasons. Most important of these was the growing friendliness between Germany and England. France and Russia were afraid that if they waited too long England might remain neutral in case of war which would be a fatal blow to their hopes of certain victory over the Central Powers...
...dignitaries came into San Francisco last week from Honolulu. One was John Wingate Weeks, Secretary of War until last fall. He left the U. S. soon after a long and nearly, fatal illness, still a sick man. Accompanied by a party which included his wife, his bondhouse partner (Hornblower), his partner's wife, he went to South Africa, thence to Hawaii. Of the past he said that the climate and beauty of Hawaii even exceeded his recollection of 43 years ago. Of the future he said he had some farms in New Hampshire, "and I think...
...Herald gives the story of that first night riot from the point of view of indignant Boston as follows: "This fatal mistake turned the play into a howling failure. The Harvard men came, in numbers large enough to fill the boxes on each side of the stage. . . . They were mostly 'cubs' of the crazily merry type of students out for a lark and determined to guy everybody with in jostling and hearing distance...
...until he was 80 did his fatal illness manifest itself?an affection of the heart. That was complicated by other troubles, which required an operation last summer. During the fall he lost the use of his legs, two weeks ago his condition became worse, and in the last few days before his death he sank rapidly until his faintly beating heart ceased altogether...