Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fate upset the odds as he exchanged whispers instead of Ivy league songs with Miss Shirley Munford of Wellesley's Munger Hall while careening down the General Lawrence Highway in Medford...
Names & Numbers. As Witness Menjou stepped down, Chairman Thomas declared a two-minute recess. After that Man of Distinction, anyone else was bound to be something of an anticlimax. The next witnesses felt their fate but did their best. Esquire's Movie Critic John Charles Moffitt fired in all directions...
...date-or-no-date policy. As far as this year is concerned, the issue is just about dead, but planning for next year's football season now instead of in October, 1948, will be an improvement in itself. The Irard-pressed undergraduate had better resign himself to his 1947 fate--but start thinking long and seriously about what to wait for until next year...
...movie-Gyppo, the informer, drops some pieces of silver at the betrayed man's wake. They have not yet begun to suspect, but suddenly Gyppo sees himself as Judas. It is the drama of self-recognition, in which a potentially good man realizes the horror of his own fate...
Lovesick Ladies. The Victorian novelists, Dr. Dunbar thinks, were pretty "realistic" after all: "Their prim and prissy heroines succumbed in droves to an epidemic of ladylike behavior. Disappointed in love or deprived by the malignity of fate of some adored object, they went into gentle declines and perished with immense propriety. ... A great many victims of tuberculosis today are doing the same. . . . They are those baffling cases for whose ailments no thoroughly sound explanation can be given in terms of their lungs alone...