Word: doom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sinister Juarez, man of implacable power, one who "has never had a dream." The native leader, never brought upon the stage, is constantly felt to be the spirit that directs deadly forces against the wavering royalist's policy. Betrayed, deserted, defeated by himself, Maximilian goes to his doom, a failure in living for his cause, but strong in dying for it. All this is presented against a series of 13 scenes, done in the Guild's most lavish manner, peopled by a long list of characters, interpreted by the Guild's best talent: Alfred Lunt, Clare Eames...
Despatches reported Wilhelm of Doom disposed to content himself with this $3,570,000 sop, though he had demanded some...
Correspondents who had come to hear the doom of Thoiry, went away declaring that Premier Poincare would attempt to secure passage for the Franco-U. S. debt pact when the French Chamber reas- sembles next month but would seek to make the ratification conditional on a transfer safeguard clause being conceded...
Lusty Bavarians cheered at Nuremberg last week one whom they hail as "Our King"-the onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. He, clad in a field-gray uniform, spike-helmeted, reviewed with Prince Oscar of Prussia (rep resenting Wilhelm of Doom) and the great Feldmarschall von Mackensen (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924) a mammoth parade of several thousand former Imperial officers and Reichswehr troops...
...Every tale has its moral lesson. In the Bryan song, the singer warns: If you want to go to Heaven, When your time on earth is through, You must be as Mr. Bryan, You will fail unless you do. The villain that brings little Mary Thagan to her "fatal doom" is made an object of pity as well as loathing. And the Floyd Collins song counsels-as the miners of Salem, Ky., well knew-to "get right with your Maker before it is too late...