Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princess Hermionie, who, if "Bill of Doom" had remained Kaiser of Germany, might have been Kaiserin, has rheumatism and is obliged to hobble about on crutches. In this state she hobbled off to Baden-Baden to take the cure, her husband's physician in attendance. It was reported that her stepchildren ignored her presence in Germany...
Just what the realization of this plan would do to the speculative wheat market is conjectural. Some hold that it would doom it, since the farmers would hold all the grain and could corner shorts or ruin bulls at will. Others believe open speculation in grain is necessary and will continue. All agree, silently or aloud, that the move will not end grain speculation. The farmer will be compelled to speculate on grain held because of fluctuations in foreign markets, and the inevitable uncertainties of the factors of supply and demand...
Another royal refugee plans to return to Germany. Princess Victoria Louise, Duchess of Brunswick, only daughter of the Kaiser of Doom, intends to leave Gmunden in Austria for their residence at Blankenburg in the ex-Duchy of Brunswick...
...Potsdam, home of the ex-Imperial family, a Monarchist rally was planned for June 14, allegedly under the auspices of the ex-Kaiser who was said to have sent a letter from Doom urging that no expense be spared, offering to cover a deficit, advising that the day be made one of gladness for common soldiers and non-commissioned officers, so that military and monarchistic tradition might be preserved in the classes from which these men come. He also suggested the striking of a special medal to commemorate the day. The Kaiser's letter was sent to all wealthy...
...pronouncement last week from two neurosurgeons of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, stated that the pain, if not the doom of cancer, can be mitigated by an operation. The surgeons are William G. Spiller and Charles H. Frazier. Their operation-chordotomy- severs the sensory nerves in the spinal column. It is performed in cases where the pain is too great for drugs to relieve...