Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the fate of Colonel Mitchell on the way to being determined by the reviewing authorities in the War Department and by the President, Congress began to bestir itself. It went about it in two ways...
...with metal monkey glands from the Occident is little short of sacrilege From the romantic point of view, to let the blown sand destroy that impassive face, which has looked over the desert for centuries is better than to imprison of within a wall. The Sphinx should meet its fate unblindfolded...
Even the most delightful pleasures by constant repetition become so much a part of life that they often receive too little true appreciation. The readings which Professor Copeland has made so much a part of the happiest traditions of the University have, however, failed to suffer this fate--and for a rather obvious reason...
...fell with a great crash and was executed by his treacherous freedman. Napoleon ate his heart out in solitude at St. Helenn. Charles I went to his death after a revolution. William II's career stopped as dramatically as any of these; why has he not suffered a similar fate? It may be that the fates are too busy to pursue a man his size. The lot of an arrogant country gentleman seems to fit him better than that of the most powerful monarch of his time...
Hoary Siamese croaked again, as they have croaked throughout the 15 years of King Rama's reign: "Behold what comes of a Siamese King with an English education! Fate has doomed Rama, who abolished the harem of his fathers...