Word: dooming
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...hear a sound like a watch ticking. You hear it not? -You pale in railway-stations, You haunted in offices, you waking, you a-dream-Yon hear it not? Go to, go to, you lie-The hand shifts, the weight falls, the wheels turn ticking; The enormous Clock of Doom winds up to strike...
North West Mounted Police (Paramount) is a movie in the grand style-God's own biggest trees and mountains for props and backdrops; stanch courage and lofty aims among the good people; cunning and treachery lurking within the sinister forces; the ominous note of doom finally stifled by the fortitude of noble...
Catastrophe was foreseeable and abrupt. Foreshadowed in 1873 when England paid $27 for 2,000 smuggled rubber seeds,* whose planting was a failure, Brazil's ultimate doom was sealed in 1876 when Sir Henry Wickham brought out over 70,000 seeds of which 2,397 took and were eventually transported to British Malaya...
...dissolve . . . Europe after one mighty convulsion passing into the iron grip and rule of the Teuton. . . . There would only be left far across the Atlantic, unarmed, unready, and as yet uninstructed, America to manage singlehanded law and freedom among men." He could not free himself from a sense of doom...
...with the poverty of the later years, the comfort of the democracies with the misery of the dictatorships, the peace and indifference of the haves with the militant fever of the havenots. The film takes no chances on letting the audience forget the fact that the irresistible note of doom runs through every shot of men marching, men striking, men fighting...