Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bates died in 1935; from then on the Murray Hill's doom was sealed. Today, the huge living rooms of the once palatial suites are dormitories filled with cots for weekending service...
This is in the nature of a valeflictory appearance. It is hard to decide whether this is the beginning of the end--or the end of the beginning! Once again there is an atmosphere of impending doom managing low over Briggs Hall and this time it ain't kiddin'! No paltry little Saturday exam hangs negligibly over our evell-crammed heads. No warm-up session with Ensign Rosalie Jensen, the successor of the noble J. A. Hancock, not yet with Quactham, the inconsequential c-4-D Storekeeper, has us in our present state of nerves this time...
Ironically, it was the hand of another political boss that sealed Ed Flynn's doom. His rejection by the Senate had not been certain until Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar announced his opposition, at the behest of Tennessee's aging Democratic Boss Edward H. Crump. What Ed Crump's reasons were remained obscure, but in whatever political revenge he achieved he had helped others express resentment at cynical politics...
...only compensation for the Germans was that by holding out for three weeks after their ultimate doom was sealed they prevented all the Red Armies in the south from striking in unison. Said Berlin: "The conclusion of this military venture supplies the epilogue to a military undertaking whose history will be written with the blood of heroic fighters...
Ezio was playing Boris for the 50th time. For him, every groan and stagger of Modest Moussorgsky's doom-shadowed hero was an old story. But Pinza as usual sang and acted every line with half-crazed intensity, made the part so live that his audience could almost smell the sweat of medieval Moscow. Next day critics tried hard to find a new way of saying that Ezio Pinza is the world's greatest operatic basso, the greatest singing actor of his generation...