Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were being laid for nominating some good regular for Vice President, the obdurate Judge McCamant rose and suggested the name of the Governor of Massachusetts?quite unexpectedly. And the convention in a mood to do the unexpected, nominated Calvin Coolidge for Vice President. And in the summer of 1923 Fate played another of its tricks and Calvin Coolidge became President. There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present President. And a grateful President last year appointed Judge McCamant a Federal Circuit Judge...
...instant the Prince sprawled at full length?unhorsed by Fate. Then he rushed to summon aid for "Oh, Dear," whose instantaneous death seemed at first incredible...
...concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which was born a human monstrosity...
There, rules which once made the House a marionnette show and now crushes the unimportant member, have never existed. To the Senate, every president, each secretary of state have submitted their treaties in fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed...
...waged by France (those in Syria and in Morocco). Amid all these distractions he has kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate, it was the good-looking young histologist, not the grizzled care-worn statesman, whose name was blazoned unexpectedly across column heads in the French press...