Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estate near Doom, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern told Newshawk Randolph Churchill, 22-year-old son of British Statesman Winston Churchill: "Chancellor Hitler has done a marvelous work in putting a new life and soul into the German nation. . . . The German people turned me out and if they want me back they will have to come and fetch...
...talking parlor-liberal New York minister, John Haynes Holmes, has again stood on a platform; this time he tells us that civilization is doomed; and evidently he expects people to believe that civilization is doomed. But Mr. Holmes does not prove conclusively why one should believe it nor does he prove that be should know whereof be speaks. Perhaps he really does not know anything about the matter. But proof or no proof, Mr. Holmes is saying something, which, even if it lacks the backing of proof or fact certainly has the support that a new idea never...
Some philosophers would follow Martian and his "anti-Moderne" or Paul Doolin in his admiration of the Middle Ages and Thomas Aquinas; or they would follow other paths. But none but one of the perennial, age-old doom predictors would try to continue talking of the impending and, we are told, inevitable, Death o Civilization...
That seals Lonnie's doom...
...Wilhelm, proud head of the House of Hohenzollern, called his five sons home last week. Up the curving carriage drive of the staid villa at Doom in Holland most of them came-ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Eitel Friedrich and August Wilhelm ("Auwi"). Old Wilhelm talked plainly. He had summoned them because the excitement of his 75th birthday had passed and he was feeling old. When, as and if he died, he wanted certain dignities at his funeral. He was not well. What of the House? What of that long lost country and that long lost crown? "We," he said...