Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Yard Police have stamped out the extraordinary menace of cyclists from the highways and byways of the Yard, all should be peaceful in Cambridge, but not so. Fate has wrought up another plague. Since the first warm days in January all the little boys and girls who live behind Dunster House have been squeezing their papas' oil cans on eight little roller-skate wheels. All winter they have threatened to break loose when the snow melted, and last week, with the disappearance of the last chunk of dirty ice, the whole younger generation of Cowperthwaite Street and McCarthy...
...local WPA and resent to the innermost core of my being this threat to personal freedom and self respect. And what could be more brazen than the frank acknowledgment and the making scientific of a spoils system that smells to high heaven. It is high time we wrested the fate of our citizens from the clutches of the politician and entrusted it to those trained in public administration. Such tactics as those used by Mr. Hurja turn people to the extreme right or to the extreme left...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the historically unjustified name Hollywood has given to the turgid tragedy of Joaquin Murieta. He was a simple peon whose fate, according to this picture, was typical of all California Mexicans after los Americanos usurped the State...
Some critics left the premiere growling that Clyde (played by Alexander Kirkland) was a cad, that no matter how far back one probed to fix the blame for his fate, there was no excuse for indicting Society. Meanwhile, the theatre was resounding with jubilant whistles and applause not only from radical Group Theatre sympathizers but from many a nonpartisan theatregoer who had just been given a mighty exhibition of theatrical illusion...
...Sorry as I am to say it," said the President of the Royal Academy, "to my mind, the fate of picture making is sealed. I can see no future. Already there are too many pictures in the world...