Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding's health comes first in the President's consideration; he is unwilling to take her on a long and fatiguing tour. President Wilson's League of Nations proposal failed, perhaps?and again, perhaps not?because of ill health. Will his successor's World Court plan suffer a similar fate...
...nature, fiercely loving and hating. So Eamor, an English country house, where life in general seemed to move as calmly and placidly as a still day in August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves as the theme of this lengthy and intricate first novel...
...main differences between these two Slav States is that Czecho-Slovakia is the enthusiastic exponent of Pan-Slavism, (a doctrine purporting to join up the Slavonic races, which include the Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Bulgars, Serbs, Croats) while Poland, remembering her fate as a part of Russia, is strongly against a movement that might eventually resubject her to Russian authority. Another important difference, intimately related to the Pan-Slav question, is that Czechoslovakia is opposed to the award of Galicia to Poland, because such an arrangement interferes with Czecho-Slovakian plans for a Pan-Slav corridor reaching from Russia...
Other authors should regard the fate of Mr. Wells with trepidation. Recently writers have become content with pages that resemble Democratic campaign speeches with all the references to Wall Street expurgated. The old masters never relinquished their ascendancy in the reader's mind by such degradations of language. They found words to express even the complex internal phenomena that cause the modern writers such difficulty. But with the other kinds of freedom which are by-products of democracy, comes the liberty to fill in the spaces for oneself. Apparently, authors trust in the reader's imagination to bridge the gaps...
Gordon Gunther 2G. of Cambridge, an ensign in the Naval Reserve Force, was instantly killed in a seaplane accident at Hampton Roads. Va., yesterday morning. With him was Chief Machinist Mate Hill of the regular navy who also suffered the same fate...