Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually a sad, ironical figure, she turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost any kind of situation, it failed to accord with the sombre mood of a drama of doom. Theodore St. John, as Oswald of the softening brain, convincing at times, seemed entirely too self-possessed in the crisis...
...bottles containing $16,000 worth of liquor and roared contentedly as the stimulating fluid oozed forth. The whiskey, seized by the Government three years ago, had been the subject of a prolonged, legal fight. In the hour of triumph, the Women's Christian Temperance Union demanded a public doom for "the goods...
...last week, it was this Imperial Wizard, Hiram W. Evans, speaking in Atlanta, Ga., who laid down the dictums for his Klan for the next two years. One of them was a doom announcement on the subject of Gov. Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York. Said the Wizard-Dentist: "Georgia will have her revenge in 1928 for the insult furnished at the [1924 Democratic] national convention by the playing of Marching Through...
...dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 29). Ladies near me shuddered, hid their faces lest the intrepid bulldog should meet his doom; some said, 'How cruel!' Bulldog Jiggs landed safely. . . . Then last week I received letters from the Anti-Vivisection Society and from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protesting against the aerial ride. I replied that the parachute jumper was no Bulldog Jiggs, but merely...
...Pavel the Daredevil" it was, who, at 26, big, jovial and reckless, won over the sailors of the Baltic fleet to Bolshevism and thus sealed the doom of Alexander Kerensky. Returning to Moscow a hero, he enraged such serious-minded Communists as Lenin and Trotsky by light-heartedly dragging off to his bed and board a lady undeniably fair but old enough to be his mother. The great Lenin, scandalized at his philandering in an hour of crisis, very nearly had the hero shot, and Leon Trotsky was especially loud in demanding his execution. Next day a mob of sailors...