Word: loomfuls
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...propaganda from either side. In a great swirl of mixed emotions, including revived love for Sara and conviction that the people are sick of neutrality, he lets down the dike, first playing up the story of the French sinking of an American ship carrying contraband. When war begins to loom, the credit of the Garrison business is restored, and factory, paper, and home are saved. Sara scorns her benefactor, but with this ironic picture of pacifists surviving at the mercy of bellicose demagogy, and an anti-war paper's being run on war profits, the play irresolutely runs...
...they fashioned their wares amid incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest was the civilized white crowd around a coal-black East African Negro cloth weaver who chants a weird native jazz in time with the squeaking of his loom pedals, the clanking of his bone shuttle...
With a very large number of men from 1937 going to New York next year the prospects for further growth loom large. At the moment there is a limit of 550 resident members, which quota is now full, a waiting list of 20 being in existance. Membership qualifications are approximately the same as those of the Harvard Club of New York. The initiation fee is $5, annual dues $10, meals $.85 and $1.00. The Club is open five days a week for lunch...
...behind it. In a world of Dictators v. Democracies, Denmark this week, in the 25th year of its Christian era, offered a study in sane, happy nationalism that was well expressed in a birthday book published for the occasion.* With the Oslo group of northern European powers beginning to loom as a rallying point for world democracy. King Christian's quiet Silver Jubilee was significant by its very insignificance...
...Chancellor Hitler gave authority "to issue decrees and general administrative instructions" to "all administrative organs, including the highest Reich administration, all offices of the Party and its subordinate organizations or associated institutions." This was delegating so much power to Göring that his enormous bulk seemed almost to loom over small Hitler, but the mystic Führer has long toyed with notions of betaking himself upward to a status in which his title of Leader would be as Olympian and detached from responsibility for details as that of Emperor...