Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body from the massacre that exterminated her Royalist parents, but the memory of the shrieks and the blood of that massacre still walked like a ghost through her mind. Her aunt, the upright, deliberate, tireless Catherine, asserted her a doomed object of God's particular wrath, a fatal woman, not for any man's arms...
...fatal woman...
Perhaps you [the editor] do not know that one of the assassins is the husband of my adored daughter. I do not doubt that the motives that impelled these men to kill a person whose influence was in certain respects fatal were highly patriotic ; but the act itself, the means employed, and the fear of discovery are beneath all Christian ethics and morality. For that reason I disavow this murder with all the strength of my soul, and I pray that its authors may repent, and may find the peace of a purified conscience...
This sort of thing is characteristic of singers. Caruso in the midst of his fatal illness sang a performance in Brooklyn when he should have been in bed. Half way through he suffered a hemorrhage of the throat had to stop. His rashness helped him to the grave...
Although America produces more coal than any other nation in the world, she would do well to follow the example of Great Britain in the matter of enforcing safety laws. The American Association for labor legislation is authority for the statement that the fatality rate in mines of this country is three times that of England. Furthermore, it is the opinion of this organization that two-thirds of the fatal and serious accidents could be prevented...