Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little danger of such involvement in the present affair. Nevertheless, since observers predict more and tenser crises in the future, the state department must school itself to true neutrality. This may be merely a preliminary episode; but if and when a new Serajevo develops, good advice will be fatal. Perhaps even the most careful diplomacy will not then be able to prevent our participation, but it is certain that pious wishes cannot...
...small alcove in the periodical room which is devoted to the newspaper, where yesterday's New York Times can be read after a considerable wait. Other dailies of doubtful importance may be had slightly more than a week after publication, and one, it seems, can't get past the fatal fascination of October 13. Back numbers, or rather, further back numbers, gather dust in the inaccessible stacks...
Notable is the magazine's "Ask Adventure" department, founded 18 years ago with a board of seven experts to answer readers' questions. Today 98 experts in all corners of the world answer such ques-tions as whether a Gila monster's bite is fatal, whether a snake can milk a cow, the status of slavery in Ethiopia, the hazards of existence in the Everglades, the respective fighting merits of lions and gorillas. For replying to sharp-eyed readers the experts get 50? per answer. Few members of the Explorers' Club can find technical fault with Adventure...
Shipmates Forever (Warner), one more evidence of the fatal fascination which the Navy has for the cinema industry in general and Warner Brothers in particular, exhibits Dick Powell as a partially reformed night-club crooner struggling through Annapolis to win the acclaim of his father (Lewis Stone) and his girl (Ruby Keeler). Songs: I Love to Take Orders from You; I Love to Listen to Your Eyes...
What had caused this first fatal crack-up in some 28,000,000 miles of United Airlines' flying, officials could not explain. Pilot Collison had flown 1,000,000 miles without accident, seemed not the man to have fallen asleep or stalled his plane. An immediate Department of Commerce investigation was ordered...