Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the proverbial old maid who looks for a man under her bed, the legislatures of the country seem to be suffering from a fixation concerning their own doom. Nothing could be a more ludicrous and at the same time pathetic example of the current alarm-clock insanity than the Masschusetts Teachers' Oath Bill which took effect in the Commonwealth yesterday...
...Owen) and his wife (Phoebe Foster). Far more important, however, is what Producer David Selznick and Director Clarence Brown contrived to stretch the limitations of their medium to include: the strong essential melodrama of Anna Karenina's career and the savage, cold and fantastically elaborate background against which her doom is outlined...
...hope that some day you'll have a big part." Dante's Inferno (Fox). See ten million sinners writhing in eternal torment . . . cringing under the Rain of Fire . . . consumed in the Lake of Flames . . . struggling in the Sea of Boiling Pitch . . . toppling into the Crater of Doom . . . wracked by agony in the Torture Chambers . . . PLUS THE MOST SPECTACULAR CLIMAX EVER CONCEIVED...
...indicator of better business lately is a waning interest in day-to-day Washington news, a rising interest in Business itself. Most U. S. businessmen still damn the New Deal as freely as ever-but not in impotent rage. Less than a year ago they were hysterically predicting the doom of the profit system. Now they ease their minds with forthright opposition to White House policies, count on the courts to sustain their objections and devote more thought to making and selling goods. But the most soothing influence on jittery business nerves has been profits...
...fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe: "The Chang-kung Dike cannot stand for more than another...