Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five young New Jersey women who were poisoned while painting luminous watch dials for U. S. Radium Corp., two years ago heard doctors pronounce their doom: one year to live (TIME, June 4, 1928). The company met their lawsuits by giving each $10,000 cash and $600 a year "for life...
...blazing lights in mind. In the beginning the Man lies prostrate in the darkness with a monstrous batlike creature crouched on top of him. Then at the climax a piercing yellow fills the stage as the storm comes up, symbolic of the Man's premonition of impending doom. Despite the complex, sometimes shrill chromatic combinations, Schönberg seemed subdued and civilized compared afterward with naked, uncouth Stravinsky. The stage production was directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The settings and costumes were designed by famed Robert Edmond Jones...
...Doom...
...Carlisle, Ohio, citizens continued to be appalled by a hearse lettered DOOM BROTHERS UNDERTAKERS...
With the awful persistence of approaching doom, scrawny, scantily garbed but great-souled St. Gandhi trudged on last week, hot-stepping toward the sea (TIME, March...