Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poles and Germans were induced to agree to arbitrate any insuperable differences over the fate of the 200,000 Germans in Polish territory...
...Hackett, hav-ing acquired the Legion of Honor for his single performance of Shakespeare's tragedy in Paris, presents Macbeth, now in Manhattan, seemingly, with all the might of the French Government behind him. He is like Foch at the Marne, standing immobile against the battering thrusts of fate. Apparently up to the climacteric point he has done nothing but shake his head like a lazy, shaggy lion, tossing the blows from him. And then like Foch he charges and turns the tide completely...
...field of literature their is likewise an absence of knowledge. Harold Bell Wright is more popular than Shakespere: Pilgrims Progress more widely read than Gene Stratton Porter. Unless refuge is to be taken in Barnum's dictum, author and producer, musician and dancer must apparently be resigned to the fate of pleasing some of the public some of the time, some of it all, of the time, but never all of it all of the time...
...formidable Pennsylvania Military College Trio. In an earlier encounter the Eli team defeated the University horsemen by the narrow margin of a half point, the result of a foul. During that game the University played sensationally, and according to Colonel Browning and Captain Clark, deserved a much better fate. Yale has an experienced team, however, which has played together during, the past two years, and the Elis will have the added advantage of their own ponies in the game tonight...
...Reduction bill, having passed out of the hands of the House with 37½% surtaxes (TiME, March 10), dallied in the Senate Finance Committee before appearing on the floor of the Upper House. What its fate will be there is uncertain. Some say the surtax rates will be lowered nearer the Mellon (25%) rates; some that they will be raised nearer the Garner (44%) rates. The latter opinion seems to be gaining. During the interval of expectation, there was last week a little comedy enacted over that section of the bill which promises a 25% flat reduction for all income...