Word: fated
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...House, Ernst Lothar's book lands firmly on its literary feet. As an example of the modern Teutonic school of novel-writing, which lines clouded realism with silvery romance, it deserves good marks. Rustic Sebastian Trux comes to the big city to become a banker's lawyer, but Fate opposes. Millionaire Rafael Bassan, who owns racing-stables and tries to own his beautiful bad wife Fedora, has just been robbed of a fortune in stocks & bonds. Ambitious Rustic Trux calls attention to himself by prophesying, from a bit of the man's handwriting, who the thief would turn...
...know if Hitler will be elected President in the German elections, but I think his fate will be better if he fails...
...same academy. Friends have known her domiciled in log cabin and in luxurious mansion and have found that she graced any environment, that she has always been a tactful, loving wife to a most unusual husband, a devoted mother and a woman of remarkable intellect and social charm. If Fate should place her in the White House. Washington snobs would be forced to admire and respect Alice Murray's unpretentious manner-her calm confidence in" the purity and security of her own background that precludes any need for ostentation...
...would the Vagabond have been so at home as at the National Parliament which met at Frankfort to create a united Germany, and which dispersed in the face of armed fact. There he could have satisfied his lust for unlimited declamation. Cheated of his heritage by a trick of Fate, he can at least assuage his yearning by letting Professor Fay burnish the plates of memory when he talks of "German Unity in 1848 and '49", in Harvard 1, today, at 10 o'clock...
...first vision came when he was five, his great vision four years later. In it he saw a mythological panorama of his people's fate, was promised magical powers to save. He was carried to the centre of the world ("anywhere is the centre of the world") on the top of Harney Peak in the black Hills. ". . . Beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw. ... I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops...