Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With two fatal accidents involving the Harvard Flying club happening in the short space of ten days it appears that aviation has again taken a hard blow and intercollegiate flying circles especially will suffer. No parent seeing the blaring headlines of students crashing to the ground will readily become airminded to the extent that sonny will be allowed to go up in the near future. Until a fool-proof ship has been designed and put on the market, sonny must remain on the ground; while father uses the airplane in his business...
...Department of Commerce publishes statistics to prove that over 80 percent of the fatal airplane accidents are due directly to human failure. We lament fatal accidents and condole grieving relatives: but we also point out that these are avoidable. Proper training, sane flying, and a bit of reflection will obviate most of these accidents: also due consideration will not always lay the blame on aviation as a dangerous pastime not to be indulged in by college undergraduates. The Dartmouth
...President Hoover and Vice President Curtis travelled from Washington to Cincinnati and back on two special trains. Custom forbids their riding together lest a fatal disaster overtake the nation's two chief executives simultaneously...
...Gushing operated on a tumor of the brain. He had performed the same operation success fully many times. This patient died. Dr. Gushing was puzzled. Autopsy showed extraordinary cracks and ulcers of the stomach. Three times during subsequent years, among thousands of successful cerebrotomies, did the same fatal conjunction of gastric ulcers and diencephalic tumors occur. Was there causal relation ship? Dr. Gushing has decided affirmatively...
...FATAL INTERVIEW-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Now that Elinor Wylie is dead, Edna St. Vincent Millay has become by popular acclamation the foremost U. S. poetess. But Elinor Wylie had an unmistakably individual style; Edna St. Vincent Millay is distinguishable from the ruck of modern poets only by the uniformly high plane of her language, the clarity of her line. Like most of her fellows she is lyrical (i. e. plaintive). In this book of 52 sonnets love is all her plaint. Most tell of love lost, losing, or going out by the window; a few are hortatory...