Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House was concerned, they did not succeed. The bill was passed 219 to 127. In the Senate the bill will have very rough going because of the three contested provisions and its increased size. Its fate in this Congress is dubious indeed...
Heywood Broun, who like Saint Simeon, presides over the world from the head of a column-a column which many admire-last week launched an attack against two habitual journalists, Life and Fate...
...News won't do as the sole commodity for any paper, because Life, said to be a great dramatist, is a most indifferent journalist. You cannot leave the contents of any daily publication to Fate, because so very often Fate falls down badly and comes to the office empty handed. There are days, of course, when Life turns out prodigious copy. Quakes sometimes come on the very afternoon that Kings are dying. Cyclones have attempted to crowd Babe Ruth out of his fair share of space by picking the very day on which he made two home runs...
...added a tribute to the late President Roosevelt, who, although Mr. Broun did not say so, apparently was superior to Life and Fate: "The Colonel never reached any great moral conviction except for the Monday morning papers. He was never fool enough to become articulate about public affairs of a Saturday, when his views would have to buck the football games, big fights at the Garden or doubleheaders, as the season warranted...
Although one can scarcely doubt that the bad taste of the title is carried through the whole revue. "The Bunk" appears to merit some fate better than suppression. Its off-stage prototype is at vorst punished with a tolerens yawa. The citizens' jury which has the unofficial backing of the District Attorney and the support of the Actors' Equity Association might better have directed that the performance be denuded of suggestiveness. The present decree, as admitted by some of the censors themselves, smacks of that arbitrary bureaucracy which it is essential to avoid...