Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noble Lady seemed to think "Old George" a boor and intimated as much to his face. Old enough to be her father, hoary Mr. Lansbury remained seated where Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much...
After acquiring an accumulated distaste for all royalty, built up by subjection to the Americanism of our schools and politicians, I have, during the past year, revised my ideas regarding George V and his household to the point of admitting that it would not be an unbearable fate to have been born a subject of H.M. This transformation is a direct result of reading TIME. Your picture-composed of just those intimate glimpses of no consequence which Mr. McFarlan decries-has enabled me to see in Edward of Wales a character for which neither Reader McFarlan nor TIME need apologize...
...Witnesses he and his son could not serve both Jehovah and Country. Jehovah's Witnesses, otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, count 2,500,000 followers in 34 nations (TIME, June 10). Strictly literal-minded, they believe that Biblical prophecies govern man's fate, that formalized religion, financiers, politicians and such emblems as the U. S. flag are agents of Lucifer, who is grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Leader of the sect is big, militant Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, onetime Missouri circuit judge, who campaigned for William Jennings Bryan...
...Milja persuaded Todor to give the organization the purpose it had previously possessed he was assassinated by enemies in his own ranks. Indifferent to her own fate, emotionally exhausted, Milja lived in Paris, saw her onetime comrades destroy one another in fights for spoils. To get her to run one last secret errand, V. M. R. 0. offered the only bribe that could attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja...
...Crockett, third novel of Mary Ellen Chase, 48, Smith College English professor, whose Mary Peters was one of last year's more durable bestsellers. Covering the history of the Crockett family from 1830 to 1933, it is packed with data on U. S. shipping, describes in detail the fate of each of the many Crocketts as they descended the scale from clipper ships to schooners, to coastwise steamers, to fishing smacks, to ferryboats. Silas Crockett II ended up working in a herring factory. Less a novel than a family chronicle, it is filled with glowing tributes to the sturdiness...