Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gerson is no great loss to the race. But in the last act, prisoned in the lacquered mansion of the dread Chang Kai Chang, the Hon. Nancy and "Chinese" O'Neill nearly meet their doom. At the last moment the adventurous Celt obtains a Colt, takes a pot shot at the munition-laden ships of Chang Kai Chang?"Master of the China Sea." He does not miss. He embraces the Hon. Nancy during a thunderous holocaust which signals the utter destruction of all their enemies...
...stained glass colors, this 32-year-old idyll by Stephen Phillips may have a place in dramatic history. However, its lack of semblance to life makes its revival now by so fine an actress as Jane Cowl a little difficult to understand. To interest the modern playgoer in the doom of these two familiar poetic figures, a little more of Dante's fire is needed...
...motor cars whirled up to House Doom, all the adult Princes except two covered their faces to avoid being photographed. The exceptions were Wilhelm's eldest son Wilhelm and his eldest son Wilhelm, sometimes called by jocular Germans "Wilhelm III" and "Wilhelm...
While cameras clicked, the onetime Crown Prince chatted amiably with reporters, who protested that they were being kept out of House Doom with such iron rigor that really it would be most difficult to write satisfactory stories. Taking the hint at once, "Wilhelm III" ran a rueful hand through his now pure white hair and promised to do what he could...
...Correspondent Wythe Williams of New York's potent Times seemed the most irked at having to stand shivering all day without the gates. He alone reported that the arriving princes "primped" themselves before entering House Doom. And no one else seemed to find in the birthday press handout a passage which quoted Wilhelm II as exclaiming...