Word: doom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune: "It is generally agreed that if or when college football becomes sharply tinctured with professionalism, its doom as in inter-campus sport will have been heralded. . . . The accepted dictum, therefore, is that college football should not be professionalized, directly or indirectly, and that it should not be commercialized...
...vivaciously and seemed possessed of all his pre-War vigor. . . . His handsome white beard becomes him well, and he walks with the erect alertness of a man in good health He still retains all of his old dignity. It is ridiculous to picture him as 'the woodsman of Doom.' He is not the sort of man to chop down trees...
...between Saul and David, horns complain in the night; discords rise, resolve; figures whisper and stir in a camp of many tents. Saul goes to consult the Witch of Endor and a whirling wind of ghostly voices imparts to him foreknowledge of doom. Saul and his three sons die in the battle of Gilboa while the Israelites march ("The Lament of Gilboa"). A women's chorus of solo voices proclaims David King of Israel. David's humility has gone flying away with the pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord...
Hatred, Marriage under False Pretenses, in the round old-fashioned way. He assumes embattled political moods and delivers thumbnail diatribes on Normalcy, the Kaiser at Doom, the Foes of the League of Nations. More widely appealing will be the ex parte satires, which are very human and mellow indeed and written, as is the whole book, with notable artistic economy. These include: a Mystic, a Skeptic, and a suppressed Dyspeptic who called himself an Asthmatic; a Famous Author who Returned to the Primitive, enjoying both himself and the publicity; a nimble Ass and an Elephant, who grumbled "life is easier...
...tenth, 1921 fourth, 1922 fifth. This season he has been playing his standard game, neither better nor worse. He is not capable of rising to a pitch of resistless efficiency; he is always capable of astounding by being just what he is expected to be-always able to confound doom's fifers by playing in any situation dependable, heady, incisive tennis. To every man comes a moment which he can mistake for his "chance." Certain sports writers hinted that Johnson might win. It was an unlikely, a fantastic notion. It might therefore, come to pass...