Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most distinguished aviator (meaning Lindbergh), will meet with an accident in September-serious, but not fatal...
...Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton. He calls Macaulay's brisk rhetoric "that style which, with its metallic exactness and its fatal efficiency, was certainly one of the most remarkable products of the Industrial Revolution...
...they were out of it, but some of them guessed what was happening, all of them felt it. Mother Anne was having a hard time, had known she was going to, but she would not let them send for the doctor because she had dreamed that would be fatal. Her only helpers were the servants and a dirty old midwife whom even the youngest child distrusted...
...best time of day to work? "For more than 30 years I have made it a rule to study and do other intellectual work as early as possible in the morning. Whenever I can get under way before seven, I do so. Eight o'clock is late. Nine is fatal." Regularity-is important. "Work a little every day at your subject. I mean that you should work 365 days a year at it, except during leap years. Then put in 366 days." Logical, loyal to efficiency, Pitkin gave up smoking when he found it was slowing up his brain work...
Upon newsstands last week appeared a booklet bearing on its cover a photograph of the wrecked plane, and this legend in red and black: 'UNCENSORED TRUTH ABOUT ROCKNE'S STRANGE DEATH! At Last-Inside Story of the Fatal Crash." The booklet merely hints that someone might have tampered with the plane; does not even hint at identity or motive. It was published in Minneapolis by Graphic Arts Corp. which is controlled by Fawcett Publications (Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang, Jim-Jam-Jems...