Word: fates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon would have been a sorry spectacle. He would have seen a handful of well-meaning but deluded teachers vainly hurling themselves under the juggernaut of Massachusetts politics. He would have seen men and women trained in the highest form of public service discovering at long last that the fate of a law hinged not on its justice, not on its wisdom, but on its probable benefit to the law-makers. Legislating is a form of vote getting...
...radical of his Nazi followers killed in the Blood Purge of June 30, 1934 broke bloodlessly last week. This time it was the surviving Nazi radicals who secured from the Führer a fine collection of conservative German scalps, although not literally, for resignation not execution was the fate last week of such...
...Aurora Bonney) trades her illegitimate baby to a witch in return for the crown which only virgins may wear at their wedding. After the wedding, the crown falls into a mill race and the search for it fishes up the dead child. The rest of the story concerns the fate of an essentially pure girl at the hands of an evil puritan community. Folklore, fantasy and mysticism clutter up the action, and moments of barebone tragedy give way to wobbling make-believe...
Recent developments in the kitten situation indicate widespread public interest in the fate of the tiny feline received as a Valentine by Harold Thurston...
...FATE OF THE GROSVENOR-Jonathan Lee-Covid-Friede ($2.75). A good story, lamely told, describing the wreck in 1782 of an Indiaman off the east coast of Africa, the harrowing 117-day march in which eight of the 100-odd survivors fought their way to the Cape...