Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shanghai, pirates were reported active. The legend of the "Pirate Queen," a muscular, almond-eyed, trouser-wearing female came to life. She and part of her polyandrian crew boarded the S.S. Kwanchung, seized it before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
...arms about and around, jerks them up from below, slams them down from above. But, unlike that mindless creature, he employs in his Sailings the art of strategy. No sharpshooter ever launched his devastating fire with a more deadly accuracy, no captain ever marshaled his attack with a more fatal cunning. Things would go badly with Quixote had he survived to tilt with Greb; they went equally badly with one Patrick Walsh of Kansas City who opposed him last week in Atlantic City, for 41/2 minutes. Bewildered and bruised by many Sailings, Walsh fell into a swoon while the referee...
...venture to offer the opinion . . . that the qualities and character of Abd-el-Krim and his associates are formidably high, as high as those of Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his associates; and that any underestimation of their force would be fatal to the European course in North Africa...
...weeks has been closing up from 11:30 to 12 o'clock noon for the mid-day prayer meetings, many of which were held in the principal places of business. In the very room where S. Glenn Young and Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas staged their final and fatal battle hangs from a coat rack on the spot where Young fell a big poster advertising the Williams meetings. And this historical little cigar store, which is known all over the land by the many pictures published of it, opened its doors at noon along with many other places...
...medieval conjecturers, issued in the form of a woman's body with a rat's head from the grave of the stillborn Antichrist; scientists have lately suggested that it is bred from putrid fish. Rising out of the East, it has crept down the centuries, a slow, fatal smoke, eating in secret. When Godfrey de Bouillon rode against the Paladin in the 11th Century, it withered the flesh of his captains under their painted armor, followed their retreating banners into Europe. Contagious, it is never hereditary...