Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kill rats hidden within ships, after every known person and economically valuable creature aboard has been removed, hatches, ports and other openings are tightly closed. In every closed space hydrocyanic gas, instantly fatal to animal life, is released.** European sanitarians have been doing that. But their methods have not exterminated every rat aboard ship. In Manhattarn they learned the necessity of diligence in tracing rat droppings to rat nests between beams, in pipe coverings, under floors, over ceilings. Into every hole into which a rat may squeeze, deadly gas must be sprayed. After fumigation the ship must be aerated, dead...
...Lovers' Lane in the outskirts of Norwalk, Conn., lived Theodore Humbert, a chorus man, and his friend Edward Charles Chapman, an interior decorator. When Chapman thought his heart disease would be fatal he deeded to Humbert a $95,000 estate. He recovered, planned to take Humbert to England to claim the property. Last week Humbert was found in the cottage on Lovers' Lane with his skull crushed in. Next day police found Chapman dead in a bathtub in a Boston hotel. Beside him were six empty veronal bottles. In his hand was a photograph of Humbert...
...same security with the same money. Wolf saw the larger possibilities and took the broker's advice. Shortly afterward the stock went down; he was called for more margin. Bewildered by the sum required he managed to raise all but $500 by legitimate means. Then came the fatal step. He took one of the hundreds of negotiable bonds passing through his hands every day, presented it to the broker, saved his account. For twelve years he tried to repay that $500, doubling his stake, multiplying it 20, 30, 100 times. He opened accounts with other brokers to change...
...lashings of victuals. He talked brash and he acted uppety, but he got things done. He could lift 500 pounds of cotton at one lick and with one smack sink a nine-inch spike in a whiteoak tie. With women, too, his ways were winning, till he encountered his fatal Julie Anne. Her chronic faithlessness gave John Henry bad attacks of the all-overs, the down-yonders, even made him ponder the meaning of existence...
Dion was a young man of fatal charm, fortunately (for him) married to a wife who loved him. He was supposed to be a sculptor, so he wasted most of his days and nights with similarly supposititious bohemians. His wife was apparently unfitted for motherhood: not so Adrienne. Then Rosette annexed him for a while. The Countess d'Ys, though unnatural, tried him and found him wanting. When he rejoined his wife on the Riviera much the same sort of thing went on. Marriage in Blue makes the same impression on you as a hellfire sermon on the Seven...