Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid a frenzy of monarchial loyalty the German knights elected Prince Eitel to honorary membership in their order, and prepared to elect as Grand Master Prince Adalbert, third son of Wilhelm of Doom...
...Pictured with the German Empress Augusta Victoria in 1909 as she congratulated him on the 61st anniversary of his ascension to the thrones of Austria-Hungary. He died in 1916, never knew defeat. Her death at Doom (1921) was hastened by the fear that the Allies would "Hang The Kaiser!" her consort...
...Thomas Alva Edison has prophesied that traffic strangulation would eventually doom the skyscraper...
...Victoria Sports Club shut out the University Seconds 4 to 0 and the Freshmen were outclassed by the Durfee Textile eleven, 4 to 1. Superior teamwork sealed the doom of both Crimson aggregations, who were playing teams distinctly out of their class. For the first half the Seconds fought hard, holding their opponents scoreless, but after the intermission the club players rushed the University booters off their feet...
...American Tragedy. Horace Liveright, who dared to produce Shakespeare in modern clothes, (TIME, Nov. 23) dares to translate Theodore Dreiser's bulky volumes into lean terms of theatre. A stark tragedy he presents, one that catapults relentlessly to fearful doom, dismisses its audience terrified, saddened, bewildered...