Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straton, loud-speaking apostle of doom, said (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924, THE PRESS), "I was [formerly] deep in sin, loving sin, following sin, living...
...failed to do. The interviews he had obtained were "incidental," simply the result of his "reportorial instinct." (The visiting reporters nodded, impressed.) He had flown about Europe, seeing Lloyd George in England, Briand and Caillaux in France, Mussolini in Italy, Pilsudski in Poland, and the onetime Kaiser himself at Doom. The one-time Kaiser had been bitter towards the U. S., had blamed General Pershing (with whom Publisher Vanderbilt had had the pleasure of traveling part way) for ending the War. . . . Pilsudski, the pugnacious Pole, had looked menacing to Russia and Germany. . . . France might soon have a revolution...
...Doom's Day apostle of righteousness likewise entertained the soldiers, during the War, with his wrathful denunciations of the Y. M. C. A. for abetting the evil practice of cigarette smoking. Dr. Norris, incorrigible, escorted Chipps to the door...
...Wilhelm II quaffed the mead of a triumph presented to his lips by Fate or Chance. It is scarcely realized today through what extraordinary vicissitudes he has passed. "The Supreme War Criminal" (1918)-Mr. Lloyd George haying actually won an election with the slogan "Hang the Kaiser!" : "Wilhelm of Doom" (1926)-Herr Hohenzollern having already received from the Reich a sum equivalent to $1,000 for every day since his abdication...
Recovery. Wilhelm, seeming to have sensed this trend at its inception, has consistently ignored such "Hang the Kaiser!" propaganda as has filtered to Doom, whence he removed from Amerogen (June 1920). He has said dozens of times to visitors, however: "Max von Baden ist hinter mir gegangen!" ("Max of Baden has tricked me behind my back!") Apparently he still dreams that Germany would not have turned from him, had not Prince Max announced* his abdication...