Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means green in the button-hole, spring in the air, and that joyous feeling in the heart which we haven't had since the snow turned black. "Irene" is a laughing little comedy well executed except in one spot and nicely adapted to the talents of Colleen Moore. The fatal spot is a color-film of a fashion show--perhaps very gratifying to those who like fash ions, but hard on those who think well of their eyes. De gustibus non disputandum est, which means that some people have heard about the lady who kissed the cow. Miss Moore...
...marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...
...morning of the fatal day, Cropley met Justice Stone coming into court and again was denied intercession. He cornered Justice Brandeis in a corridor and was refused for the fifth time...
Peterson, the tailor, is gone but his pillow exists yellow with age and crusted still with the fatal stains. Last week the will of Tailor Peterson's daughter, Mrs. Pauline Peterson Wenzing, was probated. This Mrs. Wenzing was a girl of 13 on the night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...
...come to characterize the administration of discipline in the University. Harvard has always shunned the childlike disciplinary method of prescribing a fixed number of unexcused absences which a student may take with impunity, a course comparable to the doling out of a poison harmless to a certain point and fatal thereafter. In colleges where this system is followed, the records show the prevalence of the very human tendency to take the full number allowed. The Dean's office in the College has, however, avoided an arbitrary standard and has treated each case on its individual merits, allowing great discretion...