Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French relied upon his assurances and transferred no less than three army corps from the Pyrenees to the battlefields of northern France. More signal proof of his attachment to the Allied cause were his efforts on the behalf of prisoners-of-war and his great services in ascertaining the fate of soldiers and civilians reported missing. He was, through his personal organization, enabled to help stricken relatives in every way possible by forwarding parcels and organizing charities. Another thing, not at all well known, was that the King offered to lead an Army himself in the Allied cause. The offer...
...extend our heartfelt sympathy to those unfortunates whom the hard decrees of a cruel fate and a more cruel faculty, doom to stay in Cambridge during the recess. As for those who reject the blessed privilege of leaving college for a few days,--who stay in Cambridge to grind we can only pity for their foolishness, and pass them by. To those whom no power without nor inanity within can keep in Cambridge, we wish the best of good times...
...Evening Clothes. When a good idea falls to pieces like a human character suddenly crumbling, the spectacle is decidedly distressing. Such was the fate of a good idea in Henry Miller's production. In the first act, the bailiff gave the impecunious count only one suit from all his belongings. He chose his evening clothes and set out to find his fate. Of all the amusing whirligigs of drama that might have come tumbling out of this conception, few were employed...
...status of the U. S. as the great creditor nation of the world is already bringing new and strange borrowers to Uncle Sam's loan counter in Wall Street. By an irony of fate, many of the European countries which lent us money a generation or two ago to build our railways, are now applying to Wall Street investment banking houses for loans to improve and extend their own railroad systems. One of the basic ideas in the Experts' Plan was to extract reparation payments from the German state-owned railways. As a preliminary step to this process...
...Anxious and trembling for her Darling's fate...