Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese war criminals, clutching ribboned copies of their indictment, shuffled into court like schoolboys carrying their primers to class. In the shadow of reckoning and doom, they giggled and gossiped. In the role created by Robert Jackson, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with...
...child. "What have I had out of life?" she asked. "I was 15 when the Nazis came. That is a happy age for girls but I don't remember any happiness. ... I can't remember that I have ever been free of a sense of doom about this country, since the Nazis came. They ruined what they touched and they ruined...
than ever before." Example: "The great revivals in American Protestantism were in their incipient stages during the 18th Century recession and when rationalism, capped by the French Revolution, appeared to be spelling the doom of Christianity." The driving vigor of expanding Christianity, Latourette maintains, has been an "uncompromising loyalty" to the doctrine of Christ's divinity...
This artistic integrity--rarely to be found in the theatrical world-may spell the doom of the production financially. For the opinion of the Shubert's audience Wednesday seemed to be a conglomerate lack of understanding, appreciation, or even interest, all of which seems to point away from the direction of box office success...
...last consolation of Britain's dying aristocracy. "I was called to all parts of the country to make portraits of houses that were soon to be deserted or debased; indeed, my arrival seemed often to be only a few paces ahead of the auctioneers, a presage of doom...