Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jakob Burckhardt on the Italian achievement during the XVth and XVIth centuries. It is the first book in a series entitled "Life and Art in Photographs," and if all the succeeding volumes are as good as this, one hopes that the series will cease only at the crack o' doom. Such praise is excessive, to be sure, but it is with genuine ardor that one turns these pages in search of reproductions of his favorites. It will serve no purpose to quarrel with Mr. Wickham over his omissions, which were necessary if the book was not to become fat like...
...Between the team of Huey and the Priest, we have the whole bag of crazy or crafty tricks possessed by any Mad Mullah or dancing dervish who ever incited a tribe or people through illusion to its doom-Peter the Hermit, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sitting Bull, William Hohenzollern, the Mahdi of the Sudan, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky and the Leatherwood God-here they are-all boiled down to two with the radio and the newsreels to make them effective and if you don't believe they are dangerous . . . you don't know the temper of this country in this continued...
...modern equivalent of the Greek conception of Fate, the conception of inevitable economic collapse. The play is not divided into acts but shows scenes alternating between a banker's office and a city street. Time is an evening in February 1933, just before the bank moratorium. Doomed hero is one McGafferty, No. 1 Banker of the U. S. While his office ticker stutters its frantic news of crashing banks, riots, panic, and the crowds in the street mutter their comment, McGafferty faces a conference of frightened bankers, tries to bully them into a pool. While their conference is going...
...Killed?--Sure, I've seen steeplejacks plunge to their doom on the pavement down there. It makes the rest of us sort of nervous, but that's nothing--you get over that feeling in a minute...
...assumed that Germany had kissed France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...