Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article must have pained him. The creation of a colossal St. Francis was one of his great dreams. But he sacrificed too much for it, gave it the significance the world demanded for his wife and child. Although it should be very beautiful, it was foredoomed to the fate of all false gods...
Miss Lulu Bett comes out all right in the end. As the play goes rollicking along, one wonders just what that demon Fate has in store for her, but she forgives and they all live happily ever after. Miss Lulu Bett is the heroine, if such there are in this modern age, of an amusing comedy being shown this week at the Peabody Playhouse, with the Stagers in charge of festivities. The play is taken from a novel of the same name by Zona Gale...
Quick to defend his new word for God, quicker to show new Turkey the fate of the oldfashioned, Kemal the Ghazi, "the Victorious One," pounced on Brusa, had 60 of the faithful arrested, ousted the Mufti (ecclesiastical judge) of the Ouglubjami mosque and decreed that henceforth God was Tanri...
Excerpts: "In the year of my advent upon these scenes, the annus mirabilis 1880, they took but $78,094,687 for flogging the elements into 15,065,767 pupils, which worked out to but little more than $5 per capita per annum. ... In 1914. the year of fate, there were 26,002,153 boys and girls in the schools, and making them fit for democracy cost $555,077,146 . . . four times as much as in 1880. . . . But then the pedagogues began to fall upon the taxpayer in real earnest, and presently they had him down and were turning his pockets...
...being children's playthings. English Author David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring her to pristine, savage humanity, has paid the account...