Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much to hope that, if we are to return to the older and, as we belive, the better customs of an earlier time, it may be found possible to devise some form of "dining in hall" which continues the "Harvard tradition" rather than lending itself to the fatal imputation of "Anglomania"? It would seem that amid such an amount of talent and knowledge as we have here, there must be some one who could discover that form, even, if necessary or desirable, resurrect those "prayers" with which it was begun. Though, under existing circumstances, that cheerful custom of the "beever...
...watchful detachment of New Zealand constabulary. Leading cheers for the return of Al Smyth was the only survivor of Samoa's royal family, the High Chief Tamasese. In the excitement of the moment someone hit a constable by the name of Abraham on the head, with fatal results. There was a burst of gunfire. A moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other Samoans lay dying in the dusty road. In revenge for the death of Constable Abraham came the peremptory arrest of 20 Samoan Chiefs, the ordering of the cruiser Dunedin to Apia, and Prime Minister Ward's threat...
...MacDowell was really the heroine of the gambol. When Composer MacDowell died it was his wish that his home in Peterborough, N. H. be used as a retreat by U. S. creative artists. After his fatal mental collapse there was little money left and it was Mrs. MacDowell who undertook to execute his plan. Though frail and crippled, she gave concert and lecture tours, raised nearly $100,000 in the name of the Edward MacDowell Association. Simultaneously with her efforts grew the Peterborough Colony where there are now 600 acres instead of the original 200 and 23 studios available...