Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damp rot." Its novelty is gone, but White Cargo is still an effective piece of theatre, ironic in spite of its loquacity. Best shot: the Englishman whose undoing has been traced being carried out to the ship to be sent home while his successor, doomed for a similar fate, enters, ambitious and punctilious, in crisp white ducks...
According to reliable information Yale has decided to put her foot firmly on any student rioting in New Haven. Suspension for one year is the fate of any man who is a participant or in any way connected with a student riot. This rule is manifestly the essence of paternalistic supervision. If the American college student is to be considered as "grown up" and to be treated as a person of mature years and judgment, then such a penalty as that handed out by the New Haven authorities, though harsh, may be justified in instances when actual damage to property...
...make to save the companies from the destruction and dismemberment of receivership into which their powerful enemies are bent upon plunging them?" Cineman William Fox asked this question last week-another appeal to his stockholders, perhaps the last before they gather on March 5 to decide the fate of Fox Films & Fox Theatres. Desperate as the Fox appeal sounded, Cineman Fox must have gained at least some slight assurance last week from the thought that his famed and feared Lawyer Samuel Untermyer was bending his gaze on the Fox dilemma. Lawyer Untermyer had already dismissed a reorganization plan devised...
...Tiger" General depicts the fate of Fei Chen-O, a court lady who is claimed in marriage by the conqueror of her nation. When the victor sends his "Tiger" General to marry the girl in his stead, Fei Chen-O gets the general exceedingly drunk and stabs him to death in the marriage bed. Then, having revenged her people, she slays herself...
Back in Europe again, he unearths the last missing clue to Alberta's fate, and finally discovers her in Paris. By this time he is in love with her, although they have never exchanged a word. But when he meets a German War ace who has been looking frantically for her, and with whom she is really in love, he does an inconspicuous Sidney Carton, and leaves them together...