Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That and other things will provoke discussion, and perhaps a little, thought. Therein lies the beauty of it. But whatever the faults, they are not the fatal ones of boredom. They, as well as the virtues, fulfill the ancient function of the theatre--that place for seeing--and so to repeat my point, it is a play...
...candidates for public office. They dodge indorsements and decisions on public questions for fear dissension will rupture their social group and they will be accused of being 'political.' They are dodging a clear duty. . . . Corruption in high places is revolting, but the condition that will prove fatal to this country is lethargy in local government; deterioration and graft in the police force of your city; leniency and political pull in state and county courts, and indifference and lack of personal possessory pride on the part of each citizen in the affairs of his local government...
...Paul Fitz Simons of Manhattan and Newport is back of a plan to revive the air route between the two cities. Last year successful operation by the Loening Aircraft Co. was terminated by a fatal accident to H. Cary Morgan (TIME, July 30), but the route remains a most promising one, and the airport (built at great expense by the Newport Chamber of Commerce) is still available. To avoid the treacherous air currents and busy traffic of the East River, or the lower Hudson, the planes would fly between Newport and New Haven, connecting with fast New York trains. Instead...
...borrows from his friends; nor that having won a large sum he hates to tear himself away. The unfortunate fact is that few gamblers can resist the enticements of fetish and superstition. Faith in luck, in signs, in systems replaces reason and sense and nothing, certainly, could be more fatal...
...Tower of Babel was something more than the first sky-scraper. It has gone down to posterity an everlasting symbol of the fatal consequences of idiom...