Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...venerable story of the henpecked husband who finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry a boy whom her mother dislikes and so escape the fate of her two sisters, fast shriveling into spinsterhood. The wedding takes place in the parlor while mother and two elder daughters are at the movies, and father, impregnated with hard cider, has summoned up enough courage to give his consent. Later, of course, the opposition returns and what was funny becomes...
Grandeur into Facts. With the Chamber molten, Prime Minister Tardieu leaped in to mold his fate. He was convincing and precise where M. Briand had been gaseously sublime. Yes, his Government stood for early evacuation of French troops from the Rhine, but not until Germany has ratified the Young Plan, which guarantees huge cash sums to France. The date set at The Hague for evacuation? he hammered in the date, June 30, 1930? was no longer binding, in his opinion, because the unforeseen death of Dr. Strese-mann has delayed German ratification of the Plan...
...shade better on comparative scores. The convincing victory of the Blue Freshmen over their Nassau last Saturday makes them a decided favorite. Harvard has nary a victory to its credit, its closest semblance to a conquest being at 7 to 7 tie with Exeter, who by a turn of fate nosed out Yale...
Last week Habibullah Khan, ex-king of Afghanistan, né Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy bandit, was captured by victorious King Nadir, imprisoned in Kabul. Though Royal Nadir has on occasion fried Afghan generals in oil (TIME, Sept. 2), no such fate awaited Habibullah. He was taken out and humanely shot. Afghans attributed this softness to Nadir's years on the French Riviera...
STRICTLY DISHONORABLE?Funny fate of a Mississippi maiden in a speakeasy...