Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Demonstration of feeling followed the announcement of the detection of the plot. Premier Mussolini appeared on the "fatal" balcony before a crowd of at least 100,000 Fascists, packed so tightly that it was impossible to lift hands to clap. He cried: "You are here in such numbers that it is clear that, if I had fallen under the assassin's blow, not a tyrant would have died but a humble servant of the nation who daily gives his whole self to the cause of his country...
...reception at Harvard, for I certainly have not offered any opposition to the great Crimson force which has swept me along in its wide current, just as the turbulent mountain torrent whirls the tender sapling which has fallen into its power along the precipitous and oft-times fatal course...
Whereupon Malcolm L. Stephenson, editor of the Trinity Tripod, dared to oppose the suggestion of the dean and made what proved to be the fatal mistake of writing his plea in language that has just the slightest trace of Menckenesque presumption. "We have always thought of college as a spawning ground for individuals," he wrote, "for wrote, "for men who think. Better a radical with a beard and a bomb than a type--a goose-stepper--a man without brains enough or courage enough to declare himself...
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...Inquiry Board, and the Court cf Inquiry into the Shenandoah disaster will probably make much of it. In speaking the praises of dirigibles (which is the major function of the article), Commander Lansdowne himself apparently answered the statements of those who said that he feared to go on the fatal trip on account of weather conditions. The article said: -"The airplane is now reasonably safe, and the great airship inflated with helium is beyond a doubt the safest method of travel known to man, taking precedence over walking on account of traffic congestion on the streets...