Word: loomfuls
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Back and forth like the shuttle of a loom, around and around like a weary butterfly, up a bit into a smoother path, then down, then up again, two American pilots last week flew an airplane for 53 hours 36 min., thereby setting a world's record for continuous flying...
...children play, unreproved, the game of cat tails. Two or more stray cats are caught, tied together by their extremities, hung over a convenient limb, and left to claw out each others' eyes and innards. Meanwhile the passing mandarin smiles and coolies stop to widen yellow grins. Thus loom the ingrained traits which made it possible, last week, for certain Chinese irregulars of heathen persuasion to massacre with fiendish cruelty the Roman Catholic natives who once populated Leiyang in Hunan Province...
Carter Glass, who succeeded Mr. McAdoo in the Wilson Cabinet, would loom in a proportion exactly inverse to his physical stature, which is today the smallest in the Senate. A proudly independent Virginian, he has commanded nationwide respect ever since the day in 1912 when, after 10 years in the House of Representatives, he unexpectedly became Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency. Financiers marked the way he shouldered the Federal Reserve Act through the House. Farmers learned that he knows their business, being himself engaged in it, and that though he talks little he talks their kind...
White Slaves. The charge that France is the chief "country of supply" for "white slaves" had to be parried, last week, by Aristide Briand amid all his other worries. Not only did this charge loom as a broad hint in the emasculated "Part No. 2" of the League's "white slave" report, published last week, but it was flatly made in the original and suppressed report?copies of which have leaked...
...Cleveland and Philadelphia moreover were both unembarrassed by "native sons." It is considered bad political form to nominate a man in his own state. The possibility of Herbert C. Hoover's being chosen counted against San Francisco for this reason. In Pennsylvania, the only native son who might loom was Andrew Mellon, but he was not likely to choose to loom. In Ohio, Senator Frank Willis and Speaker Nicholas Longworth are favorite sons but presidential waifs. Added together and multiplied by five they would not loom...