Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doren tradition of self-reliance crossed the Atlantic in the 1650s when Pieter van Doom arrived in Peter Stuyvesant's Manhattan from Gravezande, Holland. The family grew up in the U.S. heartland, on the farmlands of Illinois. Charles Lucius Van Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography...
...shouted him down, flung rotten vegetables at him. bombarded him with tear gas. His candidate got less than a third of the votes the Radicals polled a year ago. In the face of such repudiation, Mendes would probably retreat to his old role as a lone-wolf crier of doom. "They no longer understand me," he sighed...
...Through a fierce exercise of will and pride he made himself a ship's master, but older preoccupations deep in his nature would not be denied. He spoke of the "private gnawing worm" which ate at his childhood. The worm was an unshakable sense of doom that haunted him, as did the stern themes of duty and responsibility. At the end of the world, on Borneo, he ran across a half-caste called Almayer who belonged to no world. Thus with Almayer's Folly began his great work. Almost compulsively, Conrad wrote between watches in his cabin aboard the Torrens...
...Editor Paul Smith conceded that Crowell-Collier had a "moral obligation" to make some kind of settlement. Readers of the magazine also were frustrated when they discovered that both magazines had suspended in the middle of serialized novels. At the end of the second installment of Collier's "Doom Cliff" by Luke Short, the hero had been left "drowning in an ocean of pain." But in Aspen, Colo., Author Short (real name: Fred Glidden) told telephoners what they might have guessed anyway: the hero recovers, kills off the bad guys and confides to the pretty hired girl that...
...three-volume serialized novel offered mostly narrative sprawl and chaos, Collins fashioned plot lines of watchwork precision for 36 separate books, including his masterpieces, The Moonstone and The Woman in White. Like his U.S. literary lookalike, Edgar Allan Poe, Collins used words as black magic to conjure up horror, doom and desolation. Some of this was sheer melodramatics, but in part it foreshadowed the revolt of the natural man against an age of prudery. Compared to his friend Dickens, the English writing colossus of the century, Collins was a minor Victorian, but in the sense that Marlowe is a minor...