Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what scoundrels those Army boys must be to have earned such punishment. Their's has been a bunk padder's fate, and we can offer little consolation. As you know, the mess hall was named for the former Admiral of the Supply Corps who "banished salt horse and cracker hash from the high seas." We will glady rename it for you boys in khaki if you can get the menu changed at Cowie Hall. In the meantime, we'll understand if, in your weakened condition, your vocal work is a little less fervent, your cadence not quite so thick...
...arms came from another candidate for reelection: Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. He told his constituents: "All those who love South Carolina and the white man's rule will rally in this hour of her great Gethsemane to save her from a disastrous fate." In a fourth state, Alabama, white supremacy had already become a dangerously bitter issue. Against well-to-do, balding Senator Lister Hill, the 100% New Dealer who nominated Franklin Roosevelt at Chicago for Term III, up rose well-to-do, tall James Simpson, a corporation lawyer who decided to load...
...entire action of "Lifeboat" takes place on the open seas and centers about a lifeboat containing several people who have just been rescued from a sinking ship. By a quirk of fate, the Nazi submarine captain who torpedoed them is also aboard. For a time they drift aimlessly while Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak, the ship's oiler, take part in some sultry necking scenes and Bill Bendix, another crew member, moans about Rosie, Roseland, and the Dodgers...
...theory of . . . racial superiority, the Argentinians were well accustomed to calling themselves a 'white stock nation' as a mark of distinction. . . . Notwithstanding strong similarities in culture . . . [with other Latin American nations] . . . the Argentinians feel themselves a kind of European aristocracy forced to live by a trick of fate in wild surroundings...
...Lavalle does not entirely despair of his people. "The fate of democracy in the Americas is at stake. The poison which is dying in Europe is working in Latin America. Nothing short of a complete moral and material blockade can stop such danger. Down at Buenos Aires the only hope is free elections. If they come, Argentina can start anew...