Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anti-Saloon League, warned his fellow Drys that traditional, militant Wets were not so much a danger to their credo as "the Morrow type . . . much more to be feared: the quiet, dignified, scholarly churchman of evangelical persuasion, who never rants but nevertheless stands for the action that would be fatal to the 18th Amendment...
...interpreter to read the writing that is becoming more and more distinct on the American political wall. Whether or not it is here to stay, Prohibition is certainly the biggest political issue in this country today and the good old practice of avoiding the issue is fortunately becoming a fatal mistake...
Yale and West Point were the only antagonists to be victorious over last winter's fencing team. The Harvard foilsmen fought six matches in the 1930 schedule and won four, beating M. I. T., New York University, Pennsylvania, and Columbia. Weakness in the foils matches proved fatal in the Yale contest. In the epee and sabre, the two teams broke even...
...things, which make the continuance of their power in India necessary and inevitable; but Dr. Bapat advances no evidence to show that they foment such controversy. Such a policy would defeat its own ends by uniting the hostile groups, and it would involve the danger of a religious war fatal to every British interest...
There was more ogling at Buckingham Palace. The biggest crowd since His Majesty's nearly fatal pneumonia (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928, et seq.) began to gather outside the tall iron fence not long after dawn. About 8 a. m. a rumor escaped mysteriously from the Palace that the Sovereign had risen from his Royal and Imperial bed. Half an hour later he and Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from...