Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow is the big day of the year for the Harvard and Yale track teams. Yale will attempt to stave off the Crimson attack which at this time last year proved nearly fatal, when the final score left the Elis only two points ahead...
Anthony Eden, after staying with his sister on the French Riviera since his resignation as Foreign Secretary, quietly returned to London, last week made a little speech. "I am a convinced believer in democracy, yet it would be foolish, perhaps fatal, to the very survival of democracy to ignore the stupendous achievements realized under other forms of government!" cried Orator Eden, addressing the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St. George...
This, plus a reviving stockmarket and occasional other loans from friends, tided Richard Whitney over until 1933. About that time, having taken fliers in a lot of such pip-squeak ventures as Florida fertilizer plants, Dick Whitney took the fatal flier of his life: He got into Distilled Liquors Corp. which bought a plant for making applejack. The public eagerly took the stock he offered, but did not take to the applejack. Needing funds to promote the company, Dick Whitney got large loans against his Distilled Liquors stock, which once sold as high as $45 a share. When the price...
...group of disobedient mullahs (Moslem priests) he applied the whip in person. Strongwilled, previously healthy followers of the absent Sultan Ahmad Shah, whom Reza Khan later had deposed, developed mysterious maladies from which they never recovered. One chief of polio committed suicide, and a foreign minister underwent a fatal operation for a vague ailment. Summed up the Most Lofty of Living Men several years ago: "I am a soldier-a simple soldier-and love...
...Lubbock, Tex., Mrs. May Lane Post bought two bicycles, ordered them shipped to Alaska to the two Eskimos who discovered the bodies of her husband, Flyer Wiley Post, and Will Rogers after their fatal crash...