Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, a deposed king, a discarded queen, a prince & two princesses silently watched tragic death end the tragic life of their mother. As if two abdications, bitter hatred and widowhood had not brought her enough pain, Dowager ex-Queen Sophie of Greece, 61, died slowly, painfully of cancer. In Doom, Holland. ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, denied permission to visit her, coughed with bronchitis, shivered with fear that the disease which had taken first his father and now his sister might some day kill...
From a legal standpoint the telegram, if genuine, was interesting. But to read it to a National Assembly was an old man's folly. By excusing the Thirteenth Alfonso as "timid," loyal old Count de Romanones sealed such doom as Spain's National Assembly could inflict...
...Doom, Holland, last week, Germany's whilom All Highest War Lord, Wilhelm II, spread staff maps of Manchuria on long tables and had fun sticking them with colored pushpins. It was like old times...
...nephew is revolted, tries to flee the house. In desperation Mr. Marble wheedles him into taking a farewell glass of whiskey. Mr. Marble is an amateur photographer and into the whiskey he pours some of the cyanide of potassium which he uses for developing. From that moment doom slowly continues to embrace plump, puffy Mr. Marble...
...retired department store proprietor, Eugene O'Reilly foresees the doom of urban department stores. Future city dwellers will go to the country, he says, to do their shopping, where they will find ample parking space, plenty of fresh air. sunlight. The William L. Ward to whom Mr. O'Reilly's sign referred is the Republican Boss of Westchester County. Mr. O'Reilly says he has no land for sale...