Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruffle U. S. equanimity. Asked Burgomaster Karl Russel of Coblenz, addressing the Hindenburg banquet: "How could we have endured the 'roughneck' methods of the Americans and the calculated oppression of the French if our peerless Rhine and Moselle wines had not helped us to bear our sad fate...
...country can go. ... A prominent Republican came to me in Washington about present conditions. I told him to go back to President Hoover, sit down in his office and tell the President he could thank God the depression came in the middle of his term. For as sure as fate in 1932 the chimneys will be smoking, the farmers will be getting good crops that will bring them good prices and Mr. Hoover will be reelected. . . . I don't approve of it but it will happen. [Titters in the audience.] I'm serious! He will...
...suit himself. Ineligible but attractive young men were shipped off to faraway posts; harmless, ambitious eligibles were invited to dinner. Father Plimsoll did not even shrink from employing a detective. But his best-laid plans did not so much go wrong as turn inside out, a trick of Fate's (or Author Kahler's) which enabled him to refrain from beating his breast-in fact, to receive congratulations on his shrewdness-when, an unwilling wedding guest, he heard the loud bassoon. Author Hugh MacNair Kahler, 47, is of that school of U. S. writers which owes allegiance...
...gasoline. Many of these, impressed by the fact that Socony usually is the first to change a price, felt sure it was dominant. Some stated that there was restraint of trade, that if they cut the price of gasoline no company would sell to them. Others testified no such fate would befall. Witness L. S. Hall, Gulf retailer in Concord, N. H., and the counsel for the defense went into a long discussion of Royal Dutch-Shell's activities. Asked whether he did not know that Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania was perhaps second in size only to Royal...
Four strange French children-Paul, his sister Elizabeth, their friends Agatha and Gerard-and a wealthy American Jew are placed by Author Cocteau in a scene bathed in a curious, unreal melancholy. Of Paul and Elizabeth, two orphans whose fate is to live thoroughly naive and irresponsible lives, the story chiefly concerns itself...