Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Doyle, of Baton Rouge, La., disillusioned members of the Kuzbas experiment, assert that in Siberia Lerner boasted that he had driven the fatal " little red wagon" to Wall Street. Beyond the knowledge that he was in New York at the time of the explosion and is a regular member of the I. W. W. there is no evidence against...
...radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten a fatal hold on the healthy tissue...
...dying enough times to have exhausted the resources of a cat. He defines dying as "the process of passing from that quickened consciousness we term life into that black borderland which, so far as we know, edges eternity". Then, in an article written just before an operation which proved fatal to him, he tells of the various ways in which he had previously met death:--by falling down an elevator shaft, from the effects of a mine explosion, from a shell-wound, from anaesthetic, and from loss of blood. But every time the return to life proved more painful...
...jailed so many of its leaders, sucked dry of effective propaganda by the return of business prosperity which vitiated their " industrial misery and slavery " pleas, and split wide open by internal strife, the I. W. W. has suffered a relapse that most experts on labor problems thought to be fatal. The Marine Workers' strike proves that the I. W. W. have relentless vitality of a kind. Like the serpents of mythology you can cut them into little pieces, but all the pieces live...
...form not alone a mutual admiration society, but also an exclusive literary coterie, admission to which is denied candidates who have not the personal friendship of the charter members. Only thoroughgoing social radicals are welcome. Clearness and cleanness, coupled with a sound belief in American institutions, is a fatal...