Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within a single day after the first shot had been fired General Francisco Serrano was captured, tried by summary court martial and shot as a traitor. Rumors to the effect that General Arnulfo Gomez had suffered a like fate subsequently proved to be false, he being annoyingly at large. But with General Serrano died no less than 13 generals and private citizens, convicted of aiding...
...fact that in this particular case, a managership is giving way before scholarship is not of great moment. Other extra curricula activities, different from the football managership only in that they are less in the public eye, have, no doubt, suffered the same fate in recent years. The teams, too, have not been immune from the added attraction which the tutorial system, better reading facilities, more capable instructors, or whatnot seem to be lending to what was formerly considered the exclusive preserve of the uncongenial grind...
...biography, wears the gallant armour of fiction rather than the awkward and improbable stays of legend. At the head of each chapter Author Russell has scribbled lines from The Ancient Mariner, and these, in their wild fire, seem to illuminate the career of another careless sailor, pursued by a fate more stubborn than an albatross. Hitherto the life of John Paul Jones has been clothed in mystery or history-book nonsense. Now, when the ancient long-respected knights and statesmen are drawn, quartered and made into sandwiches on wry bread buttered with rancid satire, it has pleased Author Russell...
From the clown whose heart was breaking beneath his greasepaint, even though he capered and grimaced ever so gayly, from the sad fate of the little sawdust equestrienne, from the scores of tragedies of tarnished tinsel, the playwrights of today 'have traveled rather swiftly over a long road. They have left behind the doubtful humors of bathos, which are caught by only a minority of their listeners and even then in contradiction of the author's intention. From the mists of experiment may appear the author who can view life again as a stage, with perhaps some of the subtlety...
...progress of the flame, which spread through the whole building, and in a short time this venerable monument to the piety of our ancestors was reduced to a heap of ashes. The other Colleges, Stoughton Hall and Massachusetts Hall, were in the danger of sharing the same fate... But by the blessing of God upon the vigorous efforts of the assistants, the rain was confined to Harvard Hall; and there, besides the destruction of the private property of those who had chambers in it, the public loss is very great, perhaps irrespectable...