Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misfortune was made complete when Fate snatched from him his wife . . . lost when the Yacht Lucullus sank in collision with the British Steamer Adria off Constantinople harbor...
Explanation may lie in the fact that Tsarist landlords underfed their peasants and sold abroad what the hungry would have liked to eat. Today, with the peasant master of his Fate and Farm, rural tummies are full to bursting, and urban workers are experiencing a slight vacancy under the belt...
...anxious observer may tremble for the fate of the reading period with such quantity of competing attractions. But reading lists cannot be pursued twenty-four hours a day, and diversions such as these can refresh the weary minds with good effect. On the whole the only fear to be expressed is that the present calendar be changed, for Boston has not always been, so fortunate...
...short chapters devoted to each man are half essay, half straightforward biographical sketch. The effect is to paint clear pictures of the candidates in the medium of their political careers, intimating the fitness of each for the office which they missed, and analyzing carefully the forces which settled the fate the each in the race...
...fate of the flyers if they ever fall unprotected into the hands of their admirers is to be doubted. Large portions of Lindbergh's plane disappeared under the onslaught of the souvenir-hunters, and whether the attack would have spared him is not easy to say. But the welcome is sincere, if enthusiastic, and if they are careful to stay under police guard they will survive to tell many thrilling tales about American greetings...