Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nene Berliner Zeitung thereupon wanted to know: "Why didn't Wilhelm II offer condolences?" and quotes the Prague Tageblatt as saying: "One would think that Emperor Wilhelm would today somehow feel himself still connected with the fate of the German people and would join in the mourning when that Nation is overtaken by a loss for which Frenchmen and Englishmen express their sympathy. The Governments of Paris and London have condoled, but the German at Doom remains silent...
Whatever sense of triumph the patriot may entertain at this announcement must be tinged with an abiding pity for the unfortunate victims. No worse fate could be wished for a hated and despised enemy than to have his land suddenly swamped under an importation of clothes tailored at Fashion Park; or to have his respectable Sunday reading debauched by Eight Full Pages of Comics--Funnier Than Ever; or to witness his Shaws and his Galsworthys dethroned by barbarian Sandbergs and Andersons...
...such a case, an even more tragic fate awaits the conqueror, in the revenge of American transportation companies. Instead of returning from his summer trip abroad intellectually stimulated, by the best of British thought, the traveller from Cincinnati will return in September restless and dissatisfied, writhing in the consciousness that although he sedulously dodged Niagara Falls and the Yellowstone, he has nevertheless done nothing in spite of all desperate efforts, but See America First...
...trousers but too much of them shocked the dandies of those days. Now, with still a haunting memory of '92 when then length of one's trousers measured the length of his life, Frenchmen view the sartorial eccentricities of the Herriot government with apprehension. If it is accorded the fate of its liberal English contemporary it may know whereon to blame its fall. A black waistcoat at a formal reception! Morbleu...
...they approached the eighth hole, the wearer of the cotton gloves was one up. Mr. Baker's ball dropped ten feet from the pin; he putted; it serpentined from view-a five. The match was even. Mr. Rockefeller normally plays but eight holes. Fearful of untying what Fate had so obviously tied, the two old gentlemen removed to the hotel. Score for eight holes: Baker, 54; Rockefeller...