Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There stood by the child's cradle one great and powerful, Fate. . . . Her protecting arm she raised above him. She took him by the hand and ever led him on. . . . She commissioned into the service a good and a great merchant of Boston. . . . She commanded striking policemen to open a path before him. A great Police Commissioner gave wings to his feet. . . . She set him in the seats of the mighty. Even Death rode on before him and cleared...
...courtship of Coolidge was unique. . . . He laid much confidence on the power of propinquity, sitting and silence. . . . When the hour ripened for action, he gently spread a kerchief upon the carpeted floor on Maple Street. . . . He confided to her alone that Fate had pointed to the Presidency for him. . . . She replied in a monosyllable: 'Yes.' . . . Asked once by a representative of the press for the romance of her marriage, Grace Goodhue Coolidge replied: 'Have you ever seen my husband?' . . . If Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge has ever deplored her decision, she has had too much loyalty to the President to betray...
...less interesting than a politician. One suspects an industrious correspondent of poring over back newspaper files and making a conscientious if uninspired summary. At times he is distressingly literal and like Mr. Washburn submits frequent homilies on the humbler virtues. He does not vapor, however, about the broodings of Fate. Some extracts...
...good and great merchant of Boston" commissioned by Fate...
...fate of Francesco Tomei...