Word: doomed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost in the forward lines. The Crimson rush line gave a dismal exhibition. On the defense great holes, through which the Dartmouth interference and ball carriers paraded, were blasted in it by the rugged Green charges. It was the line's failure to make openings which sealed the doom of the Harvard running attack and the Crimson passers were hurried by the India linemen sifting through the porous opposing wall...
Heartbreaking and poignant, no less. The glittering society miss pays dearly for her glitter. And the very inevitability of it all, the irresistability of the awful doom is what strikes you. We all know how much the debs would prefer to be educated, instead of just cultured, how much they'd give for an evening with Spinoza or Kant, or one at a concert or a less stylish but heavier play. Picture the deb, with all these thwarted intellectual desires--dancing, dancing her life away, and all because the omnipotent Moloch makes it clear that...
...they make their escape from Italy in a rowboat, survey the Alps from their hillside lodgings, move on to Lausanne where there are hospitals, gaze at each other in torment by the deathbed of Catharine, their tiny shapes on the vast landscape are expressive of the pity, beauty and doom of mankind...
North Atlantic codfish frolicked free last week, their doom of cream sauce deferred, while four of Gloucester's fleetest fishing schooners were racing inshore to settle old rivalries. Gloucester folk, proud of their schooners, enthusiastic about this race of the last genuine U. S. sailing ships, had donated $20,000 to recondition canvas and repay owners for lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within...
...been Joseph N. Weber, their president, captain, champion, advisor. But even "Joe" Weber had been unable to offer any sure-fire suggestion for a way to combat the "menace" of machine-made music in the cinema houses of the land. Even "Joe" Weber seemed to see nothing but musical doom, and the one resolution which was issued for publication after the secret meetings contained nothing more cheerful than pride, nothing more tangible than a prediction...