Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once seemed to hold the key to unknown mysteries and find the recipes for Martinis, Alexanders, and Mint Juleps. There among the vintage of the Gods he may drown his sorrows and awake to find, perhaps, if he is resourceful, the elusive answer. And then he may know his fatal naivete led him to the solution but on a page not labeled "Sex Question...
...fashioned a film in which the treatment and setting subordinate the plot and acting. The story is based on an ancient legend of the Dolomite mountain-folk, that of the fatal attraction of the "blue light" which shines forth from the craggy peak of Mount Christallo, luring the young men of Santa Maria to their deaths. Only one person had climbed to the top and uncovered the secret of the mountain, a comely Italian girl, banished from the village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered...
...brightest young men in the present British Government is dapper, self-confident Major Leslie Hore-Belisha. With a fine record as Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Neville Chamberlain, he was made Minister of Transport in June when Press and Government began worrying about the alarming number of fatal automobile accidents in Britain. During most of the summer they have averaged about 150 a week...
...Death because its victims become a spotted dusky red. The disease compares with cholera as an Asiatic peril. It is transmitted by a germ which is carried by a flea from rats to man. The death rate is 80%. An infection of the blood stream, the disease runs its fatal course in a week or less, with high fever and great pain. Persons may be inoculated against bubonic plague. The use of serum in the first few hours of the disease reduces the mortality rate...
...three-day trial brought out that Don's car had no lamps, license, horn. Sportsman Don assumed full responsibility for taking the fatal trial run, said that he had done so at the suggestion of his young mechanic, that he knew that the steering gear was faulty...