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Word: dooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacation is the time to watch the spring come in, not to fly to tropical summer or to stretch out winter to the crack of doom. It's the time for a dash on the young colt through country lanes in Connecticut, for tramping over wet hills, bag over shoulder, pushing a golf ball from bog to bog, trap to trap, and every so often sinking a birdie. Time to rise with the dawn, and hark to the lark in the trees by the edge of the lake in the morning mist, and watch the forsythia push forth in glory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...first time in five years, and Flagstad and Baritone Friedrich Schorr made it unforgettable. In a revival of Rimsky-Korsakov's Coq d'Or, Lily Pons danced as well as sang the role of the unearthly siren who lured fat, fantastic King Dodon to his doom. Coq d'Or was successful enough to be repeated four times. Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman was almost as popular in spite of over-ingenious mounting by Stage Director Herbert Graf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flagstad's Week | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...Leet poopooed the feeling prevalent in Cambridge that the shakes presage the crack of doom and are a direct result of the Roosevelt administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARTHQUAKES NOT FAULT OF ROOSEVELT, SAYS LEET | 3/11/1937 | See Source »

...Committee seems, perhaps, to side-step the more pressing problem of big time Varsity football, but a second's thought will show how inextricably tied up the question of House, or intra-mural, athletics is with the rest of the program. Gate receipts, gate receipts, and receipts again spell doom or a vigorius existence for all sports, minor or major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBODY CARES BUT YOU | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURT QUADRILLE | 2/10/1937 | See Source »

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