Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Bernard Shaw, in a letter to the London Observer, published last week, said: "May I beg my worshipers not to scramble too blindly for alleged Shaviana? Otherwise they may share the fate of one of their number in America who just paid $1,500 for a copy of Locke's 'Essay on Human Understanding.'" The "Essay" was advertised as being profusely annotated by Shaw. But the annotations were those of Shaw's father-in-law, Horace Payne-Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books...
...polite manners, it is also claimed that the talkies will bring the country's speech to a high standard. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that the talkies will give the American people a solidarity of accent. In the hands of a few producers lies the fate of the nation's tongue...
...proud duenna of the city, the Watch and Ward Society, sees her protege slipping from her firm grasp, but there is always that inevitability of fate, the stumbling block of so many good intentions. The excellent reputation that it succeeded in winning for itself by uncovering the wicked snares of Henry Mencken several years ago has apparently been forgotten. But it does not weep alone. Book sellers and publishers whose wares it was the custom of the society to call to the attention of the public will have to seek other means of attaining the hallowed pages of the Evening...
...income of at least two thousand five hundred dollars a year. Unfortunately there must remain one vestige of the archaic male predominance, for the vulgar advantage of physical strength still cannot be argued away even by the eloquence of Lucy Stone. But no more concessions. The immobile circumstances of fate must yield to feminine efficiency and cunning. In this age of uncertainty, the well insured man is wisely given preferment in the stead of the healthy athlete. After all, the Akron girl knows a good wife must be a good provider...
...maturity should form a conglomerate whole whose significance the national broadcasting chains cannot well afford to overlook. The only sad thing about the affair is the lukewarm attitude of the press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...