Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schmeling is managing to keep reasonably cool, calm and collected as the hour of his doom approaches. . . ."-Jack Miley...
Even as Haile Selassie chatted in French with his guests, his doom as an Emperor seemed in course of being sealed by Orator Anthony Eden, who told his constituents that "The League finds its authority weakened" and that Geneva must now act "in the spirit of candid realism." Far from suggesting any anti-Italian or pro-Ethiopian action of a virile nature. Orator Eden announced for the British Government this unpretentious objective: "We must at this time maintain the League of Nations in existence." In quarters close to Haile Selassie it was said that he was being pressed to quit...
...behind the portals of the Bank of France was the solid centre of another of those swirling convulsions in French finance which off and on for years have threatened to dislodge the franc from gold. This time it looked as if the perennial prophets of the franc's doom might at last be right. By ship, plane and train gold was pouring out of France in huge daily shipments, which have depleted that country's gold stocks by $200,000,000 in the past fortnight, by about $500,000,000 in the past year. These sums...
...Engels was much more than a revo lutionary scholar's meal ticket. He and Marx collaborated constantly on their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I am slow to grasp things, and that I always follow in your footprints." The Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them...
...World the World and out-Pulitzer Pulitzer. . . . One day Hearst was introduced to Pulitzer. . . . Pulitzer patted him on the back. He was almost inclined to pity him. . . . Then suddenly the price of the Morning Journal dropped to one cent. Into the office of the World the news crashed like doom. . . . In truth, the World's profits each day lessened...