Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whereabouts. For two hours Bob Sweitzer attempted unsuccessfully to "locate his principal" by telephone. At 9 p. m. the Board ended the prolonged Sweitzer fantasy by first offering him a chance to resign, then ousting him by a vote of 14-10-0. Simultaneously Bob Sweitzer's doom was doubly sealed when local Democratic bigwigs meeting at the Morrison Hotel firmly decided to sacrifice one of their oldest and best votegetters on a pyre of his own I.O.U.'s to replace him with the publicly immaculate clerk of the Municipal Court...
...kind in the country. Some 3,000 children have already recuperated there, and left their medical records. It was to help raise $75,000 which Mrs. Levy needs to keep Irvington House going full tilt that Dr. Cohn last week made his gloomy statement concerning the inevitable doom of every other child who contracts rheumatic fever. Said Dr. Cohn further, and more hopefully: "If we can . . . have 3,000 more case records in another ten years ... we may find some way of giving these children a normal span of life on earth...
...only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could now be upheld. Hastily Senator Thomas began a new maneuver to save the Patman Bill from doom. He moved to reconsider the measure, thereby postponing its delivery to the White House where Franklin Roosevelt was itching to veto...
...masters, to the U. S. The Government's case is that he has by no means committed himself ever to do any such thing, that the trust actually keeps the Mellon pictures in the Mellon family and that MelIons may go on dangling their sugar plum until doom's crack. The Mellon pictures are now locked securely in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, unseen except by MelIons and friends and, once by subpoena, by Government Counsel Robert Houghwout Jackson. In 1931, just five of them were transferred to the trust, supposedly for tax purposes...
...contemporary, the Yale News, apparently sorely aware of approaching final examinations has taken up the cudgels for the admission of notes and outlines to final examinations. It is the result, no doubt, of the lassitude impregnant in the spring air, or, perhaps, a premonition of impending doom. But pity must not be made kin to approbation...