Word: fatalistic
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...kick in driving 200 miles an hour. You are too keyed up. . . . It's not on the books for me to breathe my last behind the wheel of a motor car. . . . I've been so near to being snuffed out . . . always pulled through. . . . I'm a fatalist. . . . When my time comes, it comes, and it doesn't matter where I am or what I'm doing. It's in the book...
...there? Little Tommy Bear! Who'll geeva pull? Little Johnny Bull! What a naughty little pup To eat the paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus for May 9 entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS...
...glorious triumph on the head of that imposture (presentation to the "future" Queen of France of Leon Daudet's royalists); after a royal hunt in which he stabs the stag and thrills all the ladies, Molinoff is discovered in his cook capacity by Françoise's family. A fatalist giving a dark, hollow laugh at his fate, Molinoff trundles off down the road, his back dwindling in the dust. null who sets off in hot pursuit on her bicycle, is downed by the wind, scrapes her pretty nose...
Marion Talley wants to milk the cows, so she is leaving the brilliant glitter of the Diamond Horse shoe-forever. According to her story, Miss Talley was suddenly inspired to snub a new contract from the Metropolitan. She is a fatalist and destiny calls her to the soil where she once spent three months of her childhood...
...Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants. This wistfulness may irritate some U. S. readers, used to two-fisted, hammer-and-tongs irony...