Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escaped injury as by a miracle. My health has been reported 'indifferent' for so long that I am suspected of suffering from some permanent disorder and there is talk of offering the succession to someone else. If I am passed over it is expected that a similar fate will overtake my father's second son, Prince Jaime, for he is almost stone deaf. In that case our father's third son, Prince Juan, would probably be designated heir apparent...
Thus Romancer Locke, were he merely the happiest of romancers, might leave Perella most adequately compensated for the loss of a heartily passionate youth whom fate had originally cast for her, but whom Beatrice Ellison, a magnificent young U. S. grandmother, usurped. Mr. Locke, however, preserves a vein of worldliness beneath his whimsy. He brings his four characters together again, suddenly, one sweet night in the Bois de Boulogne, with a result more than ever demonstrative of his power to finish a story off soundly. Mr. Locke is 63 now. With his novels listing more than 30, his plays half...
...sing in their cabins to the soft thrumming of guitars.* They sing the death of Floyd Collins, who perished in Sand Cave at Cave City, Ky., in February 1925-a haunting, primitive, narrative dirge that begins: Oh, come, all you young people, And listen while I tell Of the fate of Floyd Collins, A lad we all knew well. . . . They sing William Jennings Bryan's Last Fight, The Convict and the Rose, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, Little Mary Thagan -and many another sad story. All the tunes are alike, never departing from the few chords within reach...
...Drama of the White Hot Passions of the Isle of Lost Men" shrieks its press agent. Although the temperature of the passions has been grossly exaggerated, the the picture is commonplace enough to justifly the general tone of its advertising. The story concerns a group of virtuous people whom Fate forces into exile as prisoners of Devil's Island until a powerful friend happens to alter the situation a decade or two later...
...RESULT of the Life Extension Institute's recent examination of nearly 17,000 of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's policy holders seems to indicate that a great" many people are needlessly alarmed about the fate of their teeth. Only 1 in every 20 had pyorrhea-only 5.7% between the ages of 35 and 44; only 7.1% between 45 and 54; only 7.4% past 54. Such statistics are all against pyorrheapanic. . . . For SIXTY YEARS the makers of Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder have believed that the purpose of a dentifrice is to encourage the regular daily brushing...