Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well as have a risky chance of benefiting their own fortunes, let them defeat us tonight. I shall do my best to meet them on the platforms of the country." Ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith then crossed the floor of the House. There was considerable excitement, for the fate of the Government hung upon the words of the Liberal leader. He quickly made it evident that the Liberal Party would support the Government; but he warned them that the question must remain open. Ironical cheers from the Conservatives greeted this reprieve for the Laborite Government. Mr. Asquith turned...
...impossible as a matter of pure organization to start a movement simultaneously through a nation of 110 million souls flung over a continent 3000 miles wide. The seeds of the movement have been blown by fate to New England and are taking root in Boston...
...Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, was ousted by the Persian Parliament (TIME, April 7), because he had "spent too much of his time debauching along the Riviera." Upon hearing the news, Ahmad wept great tears, "walked around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion...
Professor Richet, French scientist, had been experimenting in the effects of "big bangs" on animals. Two weeks ago he exploded ten tons of melinite close to 20 dogs, and a few hens. The dogs survived but the fate of the hens was undisclosed. The French public, aided by shocked Britons, became horrified and indignant protests sounded on all sides. Nevertheless, undaunted, the Professor turned up during the past week with 20 more canine spectators for another "big bang." There was a telegram for him: President Poincare had courteously asked him to refrain from using dogs in deference to the popular...
...fate of Giordano Bruno, Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...