Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Symptoms, in the beginning, are those which attend the incubation of various diseases-irregular fever dizziness, hyperaesthesia of the skin, pains in the arms and legs, loss of sexual power. Forebodings appals the sufferer; faceless shapes of doom brawl in his mind; ulcers corrupt his arms; his skin greys; his eyebrows, loosened, overhang his eyes like disheveled blinds; while his voice shrinks and becomes raucous, as if he contended for possession of it with an evil spirit. Little by little, as his body rots, an odor pervades it, more deathly and infinitely more revolting than that of the carnal house...
...plagues of Egypt, and the gods that send them are just as inexorable. Professors, struck with the thought of so much to be done in so little time, are suddenly moved by an overpowering liberality. Instead of paltry chapters, they assign volumes. And all the while, the day of doom approaches...
...roar with that lusty volume developed on the gridiron, where the embattled players stood. Their bellows will be a shout heard round the world, and all the baseball umpires, hash slingers, train announcers, and senators will muffle their cars in terrified haste. The yell king's thunder is their doom, for only the fittest can survive. He who yells loudest yells best and becomes a superman...
...Pacific Mail, smelling doom, called upon their Manhattan financiers, and especially upon their lawyer, one-time (1909-21) Senator George E. Chamberlain of Oregon. They did not have the cash resources of the Dollars and their friends, so put in a bid in larger figures but less cash?$1,350,000 per boat, about one-fifth in cash and the balance in 7% preferred stock in a holding company to be organized. They later offered to increase the cash payment to $1,500,000, proposed that the Government accept bonds at 4˝ for the balance. Their main object...
Although the "German at Doom" may have sent a wreath-and if he did, it probably was returned-yet, if he did not, it would seem that he lost a great opportunity to play an important political card...