Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighting to have one E. A. ("Big Hutch") Hutchings, Los Angeles bunko man, sent back to San Quentin to finish a prison term from which he was strangely paroled at a secret meeting of the prison directors last year. Up in the Imperial Valley they were investigating the fate of large public sums belonging to the county irrigation bureau. Property owners in Los Angeles sued the city and various contractors for alleged cost-boosting on harborside improvements...
Twenty two more alleged plotters against the President's life were held in custody last week, may suffer a similar fate. The nature of their conspiracy is still concealed. Allegedly, there were several plans: 1) To hand the President a bouquet containing a bomb. 2) To attack his motor in some lonely place. 3) To poison...
...made upon his editorial sanctum. If Italian editors of today are less resourceful, they are like to smart for their lack of vigor. . . . At present the bombs of Mussolini's youth find their counterpart in dangers which he deliberately courts, as though to keep his nerves steeled against Fate. When a group of admirers presented him with a lioness cub they supposed he would scarcely venture to play with her after a few months. To the despair of his guards Signor Mussolini has become so attached to the now full-grown lioness that he insists on entering her cage...
...becoming a greedy materialist instead of the idealist who entered the war. He finished by quoting Byron: Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate...
...poet's precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble birth-in fact, a Duke of Lorraine...