Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their purpose was to capture foreigners and use their nationality as a means of bringing pressure on the legations charged with the protection of the hostages and, through the legations, on the Government. This purpose the bandits succeeded in accomplishing. . . . Every foreigner may fear and does fear the same fate...
...fate of two Gothic gargoyles...
...term "hot dog" is to meet the same fate of other recent, American institutions it is not safe to say what next one may expect. Before long, mayhap, the hungry student, entering Jimmie's or the Waldorf, may find at his shoulders a brass-buttoned upholder of the law listening intently to make sure that such a misleading and damaging term as "black and tan" is not employed. The logical sequence, of course will be the "blind puppie" where, for two or three times the ordinary price, one may still feel the thrill of quietly whispering to the man behind...
...Schneider Cup race off the Isle of Cowes provided plenty of thrills. When Lieut. A. Worthington Gorton wrecked his Wright seaplane in a trial flight, barely escaping from the water, American hopes were dashed. But one of the British entrants. (R. A. W. Kenworthy) met a similar fate...
...Captain Forrester, who seemed to know all, and yet to continue his trust and love for his wife. The great days passed-the Forrester fortune evaporated-Captain Forrester, crippled by a fall, spent years in dying-the pride of the house was brought down-yet Marian seemed to face Fate with a light, inflexible courage. She only broke down once, when Frank Ellinger threw her over and married-till Captain Forrester's death. Then (he had been her balance wheel), inscrutably weak as she was inscrutably strong, she lost poise -let her charm stoop pitifully to attract such...