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Word: dooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood spot on Hale's coat, which might have come from a barber's cut. More threatening is a hot surge of Southern hatred. When Hale's wife (Gloria Dickson) gets a Northern detective and a crack Northern lawyer (Otto Kruger) to aid her husband, his doom is practically sealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Cinema, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...fact that such a realistic practitioner as Sidney Howard continues to return from Hollywood season after season is, in the end, the soundest answer to croakers of the Theatre's doom. Like George Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Robert Sherwood and dozens of writers who make much or most of their incomes from the great bustling film industry, he knows that legitimate show business is not very big business, not even business. It is a gamble for all concerned and even the producer does not stand to make money in very large quantities. Gilbert Miller is delighted when Tovarich grosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Meat Show Meeting | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...turgid by Moliere, this great but florid painting was once the property of sour-faced Philosopher Voltaire, who gave it to his great admirer, Frederick the Great of Prussia. Claiming it as his personal property, Wilhelm II was able to ship it out of Germany to his exile at Doom, later was forced to sell it to Sir Joseph Duveen who passed it on for a handsome consideration to Mr. Bache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bache Museum | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...away childish "greetings"? One has a feeling that a German University would never be afraid to tell Harvard, if it did not want to come to one of our celebrations, the reasons for not wanting to come. The German spirit, the spirit of the airmen who met their doom at Lakehurst, would never have scrupled to make plain their feelings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JANGLED OUT OF TUNE | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

...also shipped girls to South America, was still doing so until his arrest. Schenzvit and Miller met in Palestine, went into the arms-racket together, had a neat arrangement whereby Schenzvit sold guns to the Jews, Miller to the Arabs. The murdered Zwanger, employed by Schenzvit, sealed his own doom by knowing too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Orange Grove Mystery | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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