Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives in the U. S. and has driven a car for years without having ever sounded his horn is either a bit absent-minded or he is not fit to drive a car. Many many fatal accidents have occurred because no warning was given. It is better to annoy a pedestrian or motorist than to kill...
...going to free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
...they are not objects of mass scorn or ridicule. But Australia's climate is too salubrious, things grow too easily, mighty resources are too splendidly undeveloped, and the masses have too long enjoyed previous Government bounty for the New Deal which is old Down Under to have taken a fatal beating. From a critical Marxist viewpoint Australia is pinker than the U. S. today and Premier Lyons is but little whiter in his politics than President Roosevelt. Both leaders limp heavily, the Australian because of an automobile accident, but both mask physical heaviness with the spirit which makes Premier Lyons...
Even less factual was the next two days' testimony from Mr. Mitchell. He declared that the Morro Castle before its fatal voyage had virtually no inspection from the Department of Commerce Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection. But he was unable to prove it. He "understood" that inspection officials made a practice of accepting "gratuities," narrowed the charge down to five inspectors in San Juan, Puerto Rico who had taken $560, failed to give their names, then admitted that the Department of Justice had investigated the case and dismissed it for lack of evidence. Most damaging charge Mr. Mitchell brought...
...years the Department of Commerce has conducted private investigations of fatal airplane crashes, kept its findings secret to protect airlines from adverse publicity. Year ago Air Commerce Director Eugene Luther Vidal got Federal regulations amended to make publication of reports on fatal airplane accidents mandatory (TIME, July...