Word: doom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tall, slow windmills and drowsy woodlands set the tempo of Doom, where Wilhelm II ages and declines in ease; but, recently, came a letter to strike sparks in the imperial twilight, a letter from Boston to "William the Third...
...hoped the onetime Kaiser Wilhelm would send an expression of felicitation to be read when there is unveiled at the Massachusetts State House a mural depicting the 104th Regiment's colors being decorated by the French Government. In urging this request, Captain Judson Hannigan wrote to Wilhelm of Doom...
Soon a letter sped from Doom to Major Judson Hannigan, whence it Cached newsgatherers last week: "Esteemed Major: I refuse to submit to the Emperor your communication of the 21st of March of this year, addressed to his Majesty, Emperor William II (not as you; in your remarkable ignorance of contemporary history, write 'the Third...
Like stern proconsuls* of Imperial Rome, four Italian Colonial Governors make almost 2,000,000 natives smart with commands backed by steel. Two of the four colonies have no native parliaments; and the other two** seemed about to lose theirs last week. At Rome the doom of every sort of native autonomy in Italian Colonies was sealed when Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni published, last week, the text of a law approved for enactment by Dictator Benito Mussolini...
...Wilhelm of Doom read these terms and knew that his onetime Nationalist supporters had accepted them, his birthday must have been bitter. With German tact, the Nationalists despatched to Doom individually hundreds of birthday presents and almost a thousand birthday baskets of flowers. At the same time they collectively pledged themselves to uphold the Republic against the Hohenzollerns...