Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newell Paige, a rising young surgeon, was assisting his admired senior, Dr. Endicott. at a difficult operation. Dr. Endicott was more worried about the tottering market than about the job in hand. He made a fatal blunder; the patient died. Paige, horrified, took the blame, left town, threw up his career, changed his name, brooded, talked to his dog. When he met the dead patient's daughter it was mutual love at a glance, but she found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo...
...continued Mr. Reeves-Smith, "form an important part of the French working class dietary. Millions of Frenchmen lead a healthy and active existence on nothing but vegetable soup, bread and wine. The omission of these appetizing, nourishing and easily prepared soups is the most serious-I might almost say fatal-omission from the dietary of the English working class. There is no reason why they should not be introduced into England...
...Stark County, Ohio, who migrated to Manhattan and made a fortune in textiles. As Augustus Juilliard grew old he tired of making money and opera became his interest. Nearly every night he was to be seen in Box No. 2, where in 1919 he was seized with his fatal illness. In his will he left $14,000,000 to music, stipulating that it should be used to provide training for young musicians, free concerts for the public and aid for the Metropolitan "at such times and to such extent and in such amount as the trustees [of the Juilliard Foundation...
...gargles but the nurses are strained to the breaking point with intricate detail. Four times a day, they must see that over thirty throats come into contact with the proper fluid. Charts, vocal instruments, and pleas all come to the fore for apparently a mistake would be fatal...
...nocini nilliett get out of night; he is obviously a nationalist who believes in an indigenous American art, not subservient to European tradition or contemporary whim, but integrated with the actualities of the society in which it is conceived. Like everybody else nowadays, Mr. Cahill sees through the "fatal facility" of Sargent; on the other hand he is not intinridated by the pretensions of modernism. "There is no health in introspection," he wisely says; "the cultivation of sensibility has become a blind alley." He recognizes that present interest in the Mexicans and mural painting generally has a psychological or sociological...