Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Topics" and "Lampy's Question-Box" are well done in a vein familiar to readers of humorous columns in contemporary newspapers. Into the involved "Chart" the statistician has inserted sly fun, and also some commonplaceness. "The Freshman's Credo" is another bit of sophisticated writing which has avoided the fatal touch of routine. Much of the verse, too, is skilfully written. In technique and invention "Loose Lyrics" is vastly pleasing. The author of "Sir Gwan Ye Greene Knighte" has appropriated to little purpose a most entertaining method of expression; the feeble tale of his quaint jingle does not match...
...firmly believe, from my own experience in such things", he continued, "that government ownership of railroads would be fatal. It would mean a decrease of initiative and rivalry between roads. This initiative is necessary, for it is the only thing which can prevent stagnation, and its corresponding effect on the country. The failure or stagnation of the railroads would mean the complete collapse of industrial prosperity. The railroads employ ten per cent of the laborers in the country, and buy one third of the annual coal output. The life, convenience, and comfort of the public depend on the success...
Much heralded, and burdened with a host of favorable criticisms, "The Emperor Jones" comes to the Selwyn under auspices that would prove fatal to any but the most robust product. Over praise is the only complaint from which it suffers. When one goes to the theatre expecting to see "America's greatest drama," and to come away with hair on end, feeling like the proverbial jelly, it is just a little disappointing to receive only a moderate thrill, and to have the guilty suspicion either that your ideas of the greatest drama are all wrong, or that someone has exaggerated...
...contrasting mildness; the death of the emperor offstage, and the subsequent appearance of his body, verges dangerously on the anticlimactic. Perhaps it will sound like a plea of the sensational, but one cannot suppress a feeling that the play would end more effectively when the natives fire the fatal shots...
...menaces even the horse-shoe pitcher. There are two leagues: The National Horse-Shoe Pitchers' Association and the American Horse-Shoe Pitchers' Association and professional coaches are already in the field. The tournaments are apt to draw large crowds, and in Florida the intense excitement of the game was fatal to one of the spectators. It looks as if football, outstripped in the race for the favor of the fickle public, were doomed to an early demise. But alas! It also looks as if the colleges were simply going to exchange one unruly child for another...