Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever imported into Japan, all by Go-Getter Hayashi. Last week his publicity men, inspired by the windfall of a second triple suicide this year, excitedly conjectured "The God of Death must now have taken up his abode in Mihara-yama and is calling men in threes to their doom...
...paradox was it that the same men who solemnly predicted the country's doom less than two years ago when President Roosevelt set off upon the road to devaluation, were last week desperately afraid that a Supreme Court decision might right what they once conceived to have been a great wrong. It might be ironical but it was by no means illogical. For most businessmen the Administration's dollar tinkering brought little except uncertainty. Domestic prices failed to rise in proportion to the cut in the dollar's value, and debts, particularly corporate, remained almost as hard...
...Progressive Party of Wisconsin (see p. 12). Had the election gone otherwise, they might have had time to mention a conventional political subject. National Cheese Week (Wisconsin produces 65 % of U. S. cheese). Cheese Week was the pet project of Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Schmedeman whose political doom had been sealed by the Progressive Party&# 134;and the two gentlemen lunching at the White House were each thinking in terms of the future and the political mandate which they had received...
...Trapeze opened their eyes at his Preface: "A writer can have ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner that implies that death is inevitable, or he can write in a manner that implies that death is not inevitable"; opened their eyes wider & wider at this doom-implying youngster as they read further. To readers accustomed to a well-defined short-story tradition, Author Saroyan's subjective soliloquies may seem impertinently irrelevant to the price of eggs. His unconcern with plot is enough to drive contrivers of well-made stories mad with resentment. All Author Saroyan...
...last cooked his goose with the President. In his speech on the textile strike week before, NRA's Johnson had denounced the strikers in such violent terms that Labor swore it would have the General's scalp. In the same address General Johnson sealed his official doom, as far as the President was concerned, when he said: "During the whole intense [NRA] experience I have been in constant touch with that old counselor, Judge Louis Brandeis. As you know, he thinks that anything that is too big is bound to be wrong. He thinks...