Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British can no longer count on Gibraltar as a firm support for naval operations along the British Mediterranean lifeline, that France is worried about submarine and airplane attacks on her Marseille-Algiers shipping from Italy's Sardinia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. But Spain is not necessarily a fatal loss to Britain and France. Along the Pyrenees (see map, pp. 28 & 29) the French have railway spurs running up into high country at the Spanish border; the Spanish, on the other hand, have few such spurs-and also few good roads...
Grey's spunkiness delighted rich Jewish Banker Ellice Victor (later Sir Victor) Sassoon, inveterate flying bug, who agreed to back him in a new aviation magazine. In June 1911, Editor Grey brought out the first issue of The Aeroplane. Through several changes of management, many a near-fatal slump, he held the editorial chair. Lately, under the aegis of Temple Press, the magazine boomed...
Convalescing in a Manhattan hospital from near-fatal peritonitis, popular ex-Fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey was snowed under by more than 2,000 telegrams, visited by Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, roundly bussed by Daughters Barbara and Rose...
...Brink (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) exercises his literally fatal charm on old Gramps' son and wife, but the old man (Lionel Barrymore) proves a tougher customer. Gramps puts Mr. Brink up a tree until he can figure out a way to keep his chubby-legged little grandson, Pud, out of the clutches of grasping Aunt Demetria. Pud is safe from Aunt Demetria when Mr. Brink climbs down...
Anna O. was an intelligent girl of 21, who, while nursing her father during a fatal illness, suddenly developed paralysis of her right arm and both legs. To Dr. Breuer's amazement, when he asked her questions under hypnosis, she explained to him the origin of her symptoms, one by one. While nursing her father, she had suppressed a swarm of impulses as frivolous, selfish or immoral. And each suppressed desire had somehow turned into a physical symptom...