Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stress, whether or not this attitude can be maintained in the face of the feminine sneer and the clear, sweet notes of the bugle, in these points lies the test of its merit. It is unfortunate, perhaps, but all too true, that even in contemporary youth there is a fatal weakness for romance that can be fearfully strengthened overnight by the evil genius of war hysteria, a weakness that no amount of premeditated cynicism seems able to control. And there are those, ready for war because they do not fight, who will take The Veterans of Future Wars in typical...
...blame!" cried Orator Hitler. "It was not in our power ... to give ideas to the World, let alone prescribe laws. That was done by the mighty rulers of the World. . . . [That] took its birth from the fatal [Versailles] Treaty ... an historical example of how War ought not to be ended...
...strategy "hackneyed and obvious"; he handled cavalry like an amateur. Having startled the reader into attention with this splash, Author Pratt then backs water, slowly at first. Caesar won his campaigns because he planned by campaigns, not by battles; he had phenomenal luck ("nobody could fight Caesar without making fatal mistakes"). And by the time he came to grips with Pompey for the mastery of the civilized world Caesar had become a pretty good soldier after all. "He made himself a great general by sheer thought." Now his tactics were "impromptu" but "dazzling." Readers closed the book feeling not unlike...
...outbreak? If there was, says Author Wolff, its name was Prestige. But he seeks no simplified cause, finds no men of straw. Whatever may have been the basic cause, the accessories before the fact were incapacity, irresponsibility. As an eyewitness to Germany's fatal mistakes, Author Wolff lists many. She sacrificed England's all-important neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with any sensible, straightforward policy. Author Wolff quotes some of the revealing marginalia the Kaiser was fond of jotting...
Meantime, Mrs. Liggett positively identified a liquor dealer named Isadore Blumenfield ("Kid Cann") as the man who killed her husband. As she sat in the family car, said Mrs. Liggett, she had seen Kid Cann lean out of a passing automobile and fire the fatal shots. At Kid Cann's trial, which began late in January, a second witness also identified him as the killer. This witness, who was in the alley behind the Liggett apartment, said he recognized Kid Cann because they had served time together in the local workhouse...