Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will face a crisis in his career as nationalist leader. If he can command the gathering, the present movement will probably go no further than the recent compromise with Great Britain; if the Congress gets out of his control, the revolutionists will probably stand out for complete independence. The fate of India may seem of little importance at this distance, but the course of the next few days may be of great importance to the Empire of Great Britain with which the United States is, and has been, so closely connected...
...driver looking for a place to park. Obviously, it being eleven o'clock in the morning, there was none. On up the Avenue, around the corner to Broadway, still no place. Down Quincy Street and back onto the Avenue again, and so once more around the circuit, and still fate defies the driver. Of course there was nothing left to do but to return to Dunster House...
...ends. The action there goes on in retrospect in the mind of Bruce, and as I read this stream of memories I felt that the author was perhaps groping for something that he had not quite found. Also, at the very end the shifting of emphasis to the part fate has played in the life of Bruce's father would seem to be a bit extraneous. Taken as a whole, however, the poem is a superlative production showing a sustained power and maturity in addition to its real poetic beauty...
...Rose, the girl he loves, by demonstrations of her deep love and faith, in him succeeds in driving out his inhibitions and restoring his self confidence. The plot is not involved nor is it reduced in its simplicity to an entire dependence on the human will. The element of fate plays its own part as expressed by the stroke of the forked serpent from the cloud...
...equerry play for him. Play at Vina del Mar is not high. For only 10,000 pesos ($1,200). H. R. H. bought the "bank," i. e. the right to hold and deal cards to the players who would all win to him or lose to him as Fate decreed (there is no "skill," or almost none, in baccarat...