Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow's Harvest (by Hans Rastede & Hyman Adler; Douglas G. Hertz, producer). By means of a weak heart Papa Goerlich, a fireside Hitler, tyrannizes over his cowed German-American family. Nothing must be done to excite him for fear the result might be fatal. It takes Papa Goerlich an unconscionable amount of time to die but he finally does. Tomorrow's Harvest falters on for another act, then it does...
...competent bombster and assassin in his youth, Joseph Stalin has provided Russia with the most thoroughly assassin-proof government it has ever had. Not since 1918 have Bolshevik leaders of any consequence been murdered, and Miss Dora Kaplan's shot at Nikolai Lenin in that year was not fatal. Last week the hearts of millions of White Russians leaped high. "It has begun!" they exclaimed. "At last Communists have begun to shoot their leaders in Russia...
...example, after weeks of repeated effort Casey and his tutees have not yet developed an effective running offense. Or again, Harvard is still pass vulnerable, although way back in the Holy Cross game this hole in the defense was demonstrated by the talented Jim Hobin, with fatal results...
Said M. Doumergue last week in a broadcast to Frenchmen a la Roosevelt: "The Constitution must be revised to avert a dictatorship, a foreign invasion and another war. The situation in Europe is such that instability of our Government might prove fatal. Many able statesmen sit in our Senate and Chamber but they are scattered among the numerous groups which make Parliament look like a kaleidoscope. They pass their time fighting among themselves to achieve a power [as Premier] which it is impossible for them to use well or usefully when they have obtained it. Is not all this...
...Vincent Millay. Some were impressed by Publisher Harper's proud announcement that two editions of her book had been exhausted before publication date, but many more looked forward to drinking in another recital of carefully muted chamber music. Many a reverent reader, mindful of the Olympian thunders her Fatal Interview brought down,* doffed his hat before he tiptoed into the audience. But plain readers soon discovered that Wine from these Grapes was a good but by no means a great performance...