Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominate New York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia for 1937 Man of the Year because he was the first person ever to tie the bell of doom around the neck of that nine-lived Tammany cat two times...
When Princess Hermine returned to Doom, The Netherlands, after two months in Italy recuperating from an appendectomy, her husband, exiled former German Kaiser Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 78, embraced her on the front steps of the castle, danced...
...always self-conscious of the end in view and is made over-incidental throughout the regulation reels to the eventual moment of disaster. Like "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" the tragic ending might have been written first, and the rest filled in backwards. Here is one statuesque character walking steadfastly to doom over a mess of minor...
...College and took the Yard from the Senior Class to hand it over to the Freshmen. At the time, it was done with fear and trembling, and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked upon the invasion of the first-year Class as the approach of doom. For of 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, bellowing "Reinhardt", the prospect was not too pleasant...
Next morning the nation heard news that made the Springfield Republican a prophet of doom and caused Artist Woolf to fly his drawing to New York for immediate publication in the Times. The leader of the Administration forces in the Senate and the man who refused to count unhatched chickens, Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, was found dead (see p. 10). The penciled signature on Artist Woolf's drawing was one of the last copies of that loyal autograph and, at the very hour in the night when the Springfield Republican was coming off the presses...