Word: fated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors of Punch, meanwhile, came out with what was intended to be a side-splitting full-page article calculated to impress the English mind with a notion that Czechoslovakia is a funny name, that even the fate of Czechoslovakia is not far from an affair for English mirth, and that as for an Englishman taking up arms to fight for Czechoslovakia-well that, implies Punch, is a simply hilarious idea...
...ship. .. . . That was the sort of broadside which won battles. That single discharge had probably knocked half the fight out of the Frenchmen, killing and wounding a hundred men or more, dismounting half a dozen guns." With little philosophizing about war and man's fate, Author Forester, competent and unpretentious, hurries his story along, wastes no words as he makes Captain Hornblower a hero, follows him brisky to defeat and to prison from which, presumably, another fast-moving story will be required to free...
...fate of most other Jewish, part-Jewish and non-Jewish physicians who mortally feared & hated Nazi domination last week remained hidden in the coffin of Nazi censorship. A Jewish Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Otto Loewi, University of Graz physiologist, was merely arrested. Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his wife were deprived of their passports and ready cash...
...operate. The specialist refused, on the ground that if the operation failed, he would be blamed, not as a surgeon, but as a Jew. Last week he was arrested, whether to be tortured or to be preserved to doctor Führer Hitler, the world was not told. His fate appeared to hang by a thread between Nazi whimsicality and Jewish stubbornness...
Kolbe, Barlach, Lehmbruck are names as familiar to exhibition-goers as Maillol or Rodin. Lehmbruck, that strange, intense artist who committed suicide in 1919, is the creator of monumental figures, some calm and passive, others struggling against a malignant fate. Lehmbruck is essentially a worker in clay, a modeler, but with a rare sense of plastic form...