Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lung always managed to turn aside with a novelette in one style or another, the blade of the axe of doom whenever it rested too unpleasantly close to his neck. At last, in fact, the tables were turned indeed-the evilly nimble feet of Ming-Shu entrapped into a fatal error of judgment that implicated Shan Tien-Ming-Shu took Kai Lung's place in the Oriental jail-and Kai Lung, happily bribed, and urbane as ever, departed for the house of his fathers with his bride, the Golden Mouse. "Venerated Father," exclaimed Kai Lung, "this...
...Baker), on returning from the front told a party of 20 men at the house of Hugh Wallace . . . that it was the general opinion that Paris was about to fall and that the Channel ports would be taken. Although that was serious, he said, he thought it was not fatal, but to the rest of us men of the Administration gathered there it sounded fatal...
...Gonzalez Garza, former President of Mexico. Castro wanted to settle there and then with fisticuffs. Garza replied by challenging him to a duel. Castro accepted with eagerness and was with difficulty prevented from settling the dispute on the spot. It is feared the outcome of this dispute will be fatal...
Main Street. The Warner Brothers have made a fatal step. They have finally capitulated to the harsh outcries of the movie critics and produced a book as it was printed. They have introduced no extra lovers for their celluloid Carol; they have sedulously omitted all train wrecks and one-piece bathing suits. They have admitted that Sinclair Lewis knew more about their business than they...
...almost fatal to his widow's rights. She later brought an action under the so-called Wrongful Death Statute, and, having no remedy at common law, was forced to show that she came within the provisions of the Statute. It gave a widow the right to sue only if " no suit for damages be brought by the party injured during his or her life," and it was argued that a suit having been brought a day before the husband's death, his widow was barred. But the court held that the husband's suit must have been...