Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never a great artist, Fuchs might have achieved genuine eminence had he studied more and plastered less. His work has suavity, poetry, a fluid line, it has also a fatal facility that is its undoing. Without the vitality to be great, he chose to be successful. Many who see his paintings, etchings, sculpture, may think he chose badly. Few will think so who read his book...
From Aaron "who began his career well, as brother of Moses, but made the fatal mistake of trying to combine the goldsmith's craft with religion," to Zipporah, "the Midianite wife of Moses," this book embraces many characters that appear in the modern Who's Who under a different guise; several names, indeed, may be found in both books. In the Rev. Allen's, the name of Baruch belongs to "a young nobleman"; Cain, says Author Allen, is the same name as Smith. David gets the most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath...
...Government $1,800. Some said the special section cost the railroad as much as a special train, that the railroad lost the difference in the cost. Even so, it was repaid in advertising. U. S. Presidents customarily used the Pennsylvania in traveling West. When President Harding started on his fatal trip to Alaska, he changed to the B. & O.?allegedly because the Pennsylvania had failed to meet his wishes in a certain labor controversy. Since then, the B. & O. has had the Presidential patronage. Daniel Willard, President of the railway, put a basket of roses (red) and delphiniums (blue...
...might have been from the window of his hotel or, again, a hyper-metropical vision from the U. S.), he lazily and laconically wrote to The New York World "on the general state of everything" in Europe: "Artificial sunlight aids the health of London's Zoo monkeys. Fatal accidents from unexploded shells still continue in the French war zone. Mountains of American autos, boxed, too vast to house, clutter the Thames banks; new tariff rate July 1. The top hat, bashed by the War, is dusted off and blocked again for wear. In one week in April, 313 died...
...universal storm of protest as revealed in now extant newspapers seems to show how deeply this fatal restriction of the chief incentive of American business was resented, and how widespread was the resultant depression. None, when faced with such evidence, can deny the probability that this psychological catastrophe may have broken the spirit of an emotional people, and left them defenceless against material disaster; but much hard work remains to be done after the manner of these brilliant discoveries before all the mists of the past are blown away, and the aboriginal American is seen and understood by the modern...