Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take up the story they have started a fence blaze around a precious paper held by a gentleman as perfectly eccentric as any we have met with in many moons. It is he, this "unspeakable gentleman", who for a day and a night fights the world, his son, Fate, and the reader, with the meagre assistance of rum, Madeirs, and a negro servant. Oh yes. There is also in the story a charming Mademoiselle de Bianzy, who adds a certain interest; but it seems almost as if the author had placed her in the center of the maelstrom rather...
Sometimes we are tempted to believe in the irony of Fate; especially when, in the intense pre-examination era; Christopher Morley sees fit to ask, in his "Colyum" in the Evening Post (New York), "Why is it that a man who went to Harvard or Yale never forgets it?" To the undergraduate it seems almost like adding insult to injury to put forth such a question at the present time; there are certain days and nights indelibly impressed on our memories--and the shadow of the Widow we have always with us. The waters of Lethe are many miles away...
...still refuses and Lady Clarissa breaks her engagement to him. Things are in a terrible muddle, when John speaking to the employees at the mass meeting amidst a shower of eggs and stones, convinces them that he is right. In the meanwhile, Lady Clarissa has found that her true fate is John"s secretary ; she proposes to him and is accepted. The happy couple break the news to the great business man, who generously gives his sucessful rival a "raise." Such is the plot of what is undoubtedly a very mechanically constructed play...
...clock.--Sever 26. "Fate and Will in the tragedies of 'Aeschylus" by Dr. Phoutrides. Greek...
...alternative is censorship of some sort; which naturally falls into two classes--political and voluntary. Political censorship is out of the question entirely; the fate of Rabelais at the hands of the Government is sufficient to prove this point. Or, if more argument be needed, we can only suggest that money, of which the theatre managers have an abundance, is still a persuasive force. Voluntary censorship by the public is almost equally dangerous and certainly more paradoxical. To make the public its own censor is shown to be no remedy by the very existence of the so-called need...