Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That this is neither vapid nor too expansive is proved by even momentary thought. For where would the world be without any one of the three. It was a kiss which sealed the doom of at least one martyr, which saved from doom at least one saint. And how many of the grand monuments of literature have subsisted on the strength of their purple passages, begermed but satisfying. As for powder puffs. Well, at least they have created a "Kiki" and have cured one defect in woman's beauty. For even Dido must have been chagrined to see the gleam...
...jeweler expressed his belief that when Hermine and Wilhelm were married (1920), she was secretly crowned Kaiserin of Germany, by which title she is said to be addressed at Doom. The detectives, having pondered well this tale, reflected that it brought them no nearer to recovering the crown, which was originally seized by the provisional government after the Kaiser's flight from Germany...
...affirm or deny rumors that he is about to petition the League of Nations to permit his father to quit Holland for Italy. Allegedly Wilhelm II desires this change of residence on account of the delicate health of "the Empress Hermine," as his consort is now referred to at Doom...
Meanwhile Wilhelm was not idle. At 11 a.m. he was snapshoted by photographers while walking with his consort, Hermine, in the hamlet of Doom itself, where the Dutch inhabitants usually accord him a silent salute by gravely tipping their hats. At noon he received the congratulations of his entourage and servants. At 4 p. m. he delivered a birthday speech "with energy in a high voice" to his guests, and was greeted with "loud hochs...
...family income on the farm is $1,504, of which $634 is furnished in food, fuel and housing by the farm; that an odor of the cotton plant has been isolated and plans are being laid to manufacture it synthetically as a bait to lure boll weevils to their doom...