Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 500 pages on, in a long, catastrophic chapter, the whole machine flies apart, giving off humanistic, neo-christian, marxian, capitalistic and fascist sparks which generate great excitement, but not the terrifying image of man-at-the-edge-of-doom which was intended...
...German tanks, still packed more firepower than the British, but this advantage was being cut down fast. The British had learned that they could match heavier firepower with tactical skill, smoke screening, ganging up-exactly as three British cruisers had harried the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee to her doom off Montevideo. Tank warfare in the desert resembles sea war in more ways than one: the taking of ground means nothing; the location and destruction of the hostile land fleets everything...
...foreword, H. L. Mencken (who as a newspaperman has witnessed nine excutions) says that By the Neck was not planned as a "book of horrors," but to show how men behave in the face of "dreadful doom." He believes his brother's book is the first attempt to bring together "a mass of objective data relating to an important phenomenon of civilization...
...like what it remembered. Houses of non-buyers, then, were painted yellow by vigilantes. Citizens were free to buy voluntarily-provided they bought. Said Historians Charles and Mary Beard: "Whoever refused to answer the call was liable to be blacklisted by his neighbors or associates and enrolled in the Doom Book in the Department of Justice." Henry Morgenthau was not for this kind of "voluntarism"-in a nation fighting for freedom, he still shied away from candid compulsion. And he was as yet unwilling to admit that truly voluntary sales will not suffice...
...needs only a plug hat to look like the cartoons of Mr. Prohibition, departs, the House will no longer hear his oft-repeated demand: "Where are we going to get the money?" For years his wrathful voice, like the chorus in a Greek tragedy, has trumped a falsetto doom. Rich thinks the New Deal communist to the core, believes Roosevelt led the U.S. into...