Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-haired Insull, on trial with 16 co-defendants, including his son, Junior, left the witness stand wearily, granting a slight smile to the jury which must decide his fate...
Though the Duchess rarely goes out in the evening, her alibis are not so good as they might be. A policeman, perspiring with embarrassment, is about to take her into custody when her intrepid kinsman, a V. C., risks a fate worse than death to prove her innocence. Author Arlen eventually saves his heroine's reputation, without materially damaging...
...defense has made a detailed study of the documentary evidence on the question and hopes to prove that Hitler's actions were justified on the grounds of a higher duty to the state. "In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German nation," said Hitler...
...that of a 'poor relation.' It had been my fate from earliest childhood to live in the presence of wealth which belonged to others." The family moved to Manhattan, where Upton put himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once...
...interior policy of King Alexander was such as to make his murder ultimately inevitable, but it is a bitter tragedy that the French minister should have been forced to share his fate. Since his accession to office, M. Barthou has been largely responsible for bringing Russia into the League of Nations, for guiding Italy towards a greater understanding of the Anglo-French outlook, and it was his sincere mission to achieve a closer alliance with the English-speaking nations,--not to mention his part in the formation of the Eastern Locarno Pact. He was one of the most enlightened ministers...