Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Customs officials found that she had been employed as a?rum runner. Her supercargo sold his alcoholic wars on rum row and decamped with the proceeds. For three weeks the Yankton had waited his return. Then with fuel and food exhausted she came into port and surrendered to her fate. She was offered at auction to pay the wages of the crew...
...hymn to the Sun, our land and our people may be saved from shriveling up like fried bacon. Certainly drastic steps must be taken immediately; and as long as the weather-man has proved himself a mere pawn of the gods, the New Englanders must once more grasp their fate in their own hands...
...present Mr. Mellon's ruling is causing much interesting speculation upon the fate of the proposal for a twelve-mile limit of the right of search and seizure. As yet no word either favorable or unfavorable has come from the nations approached. But wiseacres are nodding their heads and proclaiming that the new ruling was made because rumors, unheard by the public, of determined opposition to the President's reciprocal proposal have come to the government. When Great Britain, insisting upon the universal three-mile limit, has come off victorious so recently in its tiff with Russia, acceptance...
...their can the student be specifically accused of lacking interest in public affairs? If he does what is expected of him, he will have no time for politics or news, between one sensational enterprise and the next. If he seriously settles down to decide the fate of nations or debate the tariff question no one ever hears of it. And as for reading the newspapers--if he does he merely learns of his own idiosyncrasies, and if he doesn't, he misses very little. Possibly three or four newspapers repay him for his efforts to find the news with some...
...much, so he went to war, became a brigadier general and fell in love with Lady Auriel Dayne. Of course, that makes a lot of trouble. The piece is well-cast and furnishes an innocuous evening's entertainment. Adapted from a novel, of W. J. Locke, it suffers the fate of most such adaptations. Alan Dale: "Involved and hopelessly tedious play." Kenneth Macgowan: "Some pleasant moments...