Word: fatalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Benito Mussolini's paper, Il Popolo d'ltalia, with notable lack of logic, angrily blamed the deaths on France's contraband authorities. "Those four hours proved fatal. If the French had not stopped the Orazio, the ship could easily have reached Barcelona, even in flames, and all aboard would have been saved...
...Wisconsin farm family, her indefatigable poem writing (sometimes eight a day), her conquering arrival in Milwaukee, her instinctive refusal of such rare, insufficiently flattering criticism as Julia Ward Howe's ("she thought [Ella's ability] might be developed into real talent with study and hard work"), her fatal love of making a sensation, gratified by the tempest of propriety that erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb Riley (his levity wounded her), her marriage with solid, devoted Robert Wilcox, "a gentleman in every sense of the word" (who years later confided to a fellow club...
From then on, the picture suggests a graph of jungle jitters. Cinemactress Bennett provides the fatal virus. Young Douglas Fairbanks runs up the highest curve. To make matters hotter, the jungle (which covered 45,000 square feet of a Universal lot) teems with hostile Indians. To make doubly sure that it is all right for Douglas Fairbanks to go off with Joan Bennett, the Indians kill her husband and it turns out that he was a bigamist...
...sugars they already have, must be deprived of carbohydrates; hyperthyroids, who burn up their sugars too rapidly, must be stoked with a much larger supply of fuel. Diabetics need injections of insulin to convert their sugars to useful work, but for high-gear hyperthyroids, insulin may be fatal...