Word: fated
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...Seldom in history." declares Vol. II, "can the exertions of a single divisional commander [Kemal] have exercised so profound an influence, not only on the course of a battle but perhaps on the fate of a campaign and even the destiny of a nation [Turkey...
...Private Lives, fate brings the quartet together on their honeymoons. Fate also directs the unexpected appearance of the Burroughs' mischievous young son Peter (Jackie Kelk), just expelled from boarding school. After a fair example of the devilment which Peter and his small Negro coeval (Raymond Bishop) are capable of raising, the lawyer and the horsey lady decide that neither of them could put up with custody of the Burroughs child each year. The curtain dips with the understanding that the Burroughs family, complete with Peter, will soon be officially reunited. If you are one of a large section...
...loving couple together. Honors go to Clara Blandick and to Zazu Pitts for rather neat handling of character parts; but as for Regis Toomey in his first lead, and Barbara Stanwyck in what certainly should be her last,-all that can be said is that they deserve their fate...
...would be his last big case, took more than four hours to plead for acquittal. He swung his long arms, glared, shouted, coaxed, sentimentalized, used all his courtroom tricks before sinking back into his chair an exhausted old man. His argument was that the defendants had been trapped by Fate in a chain of sorrowful circumstances beyond their control...
...Washington Parke Custis (adopted son), Reverdy Johnson, U. S. Attorney General (1849-50) under Zachary Taylor, and Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, national director of Prohibition, who when McDowell Hall caught fire in 1909, formed a bucket brigade, rushed into the burning building, saved the King William books from the fate of the John Harvard books in the Harvard fire...