Word: fated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neatly outlined in one of his early triumphs. The Loving Triangle. But Olivia's adoration thrives on the boorish behavior prescribed by The Loving Triangle, grows to gooey consistency despite insults culled from Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew. When Alone in the City, promising a fate worse than death, fails to quench Idolater de Havilland's ardor, Actress Davis steps in with a sad story suggested by Without Benefit of Marriage, and Olivia returns to the embrace of her suitor...
Being caught and held by Auburndale police after an early morning invasion of a Laseii Junior College girl's dormitory was the fate of three Yale students who were drowning their grief at Yale's loss on Saturday. They were held on drunkoness charges...
Among the more arresting phenomena of current U. S. political life has long been the relation between the country's most important man-Franklin Delano Roosevelt-and its most important activity- Business. Business has been apt to regard Franklin Roosevelt as a malicious ogre who has its fate in his perverse hands. Franklin Roosevelt has appeared to regard Business as a malevolent force, somewhat parallel to original sin, which cannot be wiped out but should be perpetually chastened. In this strange misapprehension, the gravest flaw is obvious: it does not approximate reality. Last week, in the light of glaring...
...greater extent than any woman since the death of the dread Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, wrote this hospitalized in Nanking after her car had skidded last week into a ditch on the Shanghai road, constantly traveled by herself and the Generalissimo. "Is it not the irony of fate that I nearly met death by an act of God," wrote pious Mme Chiang who converted her husband to Christianity, "while the Japanese have been trying to assassinate me by bombs ever since the beginning...
Certain other issues had a better fate last week, notably that of Continental Can Co. whose $20,000,000 of preferred stock, offered at $100 a share, went at a premium of $102, to the vast delight of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Similarly, a new firm named Lane-Wells Co. (which owns a unique process of "blowing in" oil wells with something called a "gun-perforator") successfully sold 40,000 shares at $15 each in its first public financing to the joy of Hartley Rogers & Co. But Continental Can is unusually strong and Lane-Wells enjoys unusual earnings. Other companies, less...