Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini, whose brashness makes the Greek Royal Family, all handsome and high-strung as greyhounds, shudder. From England the bridegroom's first cousin Princess Marina, beauteous Duchess of Kent, brought a sprig from the favorite myrtle tree of Queen Victoria, the great-great-grandmother of the bride. From Doom portly Prince Oscar, son of Wilhelm II, brought a sprig of orange blossom from the orangerie of the one-time Kaiser, grandfather of Princess Frederika who wore both sprigs as she entered Athens Cathedral...
...rumbles tediously into full view, like a steamroller, blocks away. At once the Vagabond is aware of the menace, but it seems silly to be worried at so remote a doom. So he continues to flirt with frivolity, chasing his gaudy butterflies, granting full audience to every thought which whimpers: "Rest sleep, dream, doze--you are secure, you must not recover too quickly from the rigors of the holidays, you have ten days yet--rest, all will be well...
...into the fireplace and swear reform. He does not sob plaintively under the heavy roller: "Why? Why? Why?" Instead he says, "Neither it is good, nor it is bad; but only--it is here," and he marks on his calendar with large red crosses the four days of his doom, which are now less than a fortnight hence...
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 30, heir apparent of Crown Prince Friedrich William of Germany, one-time automechanic in a Detroit Ford plant, now employed by .Lufthansa German airline; to Princess Kyra Kirillowna, 28, daughter of Russian Grand Duke Cyril; in Doom, The Netherlands...
Less capable of high jinks, less disposed to trifle with ideas of doom, Poet Auden throughout his travels takes an English Gentleman's slightly proprietary interest in good nature and good sense wherever he may find them. Among the Icelanders he finds considerable good nature and a general sanity too unmitigated to be of much current use to a loyal inhabitant of contemporary Europe. But Poet Auden is not so loyal to Europe as to deny the notion-suggested by the sight of Icelanders clumsily gallivanting at a country fair-that plain human nature is the essential thing...