Word: omen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...omen for democracy when South American dictators discuss it. On Christmas Eve Paraguay's untutored strong man, Higinio Morinigo, delivered a 1,200-word fireside chat on democracy. "Real democracy," he said, was government which "expresses its will within social order, mutual respect, public morale." Further, the dictator did not think that political parties were necessary ingredients. Snorted La Nación, Buenos Aires' ponderous liberal daily: "Democracy without parties is inconceivable." Into the flashing Morinigo teeth it tossed Lord Bryce's well-known definition.* The blast was obviously intended as an indirect slap at Argentina...
...vote was small-smallest in 28 years. Dopesters who believe that Tom Dewey's chances in November will be enhanced by a small turnout at the polls thought the size of Maine's vote a good omen for Dewey...
Labor Day was Talbert's 26th birthday. He hoped it was a good omen for his finals match with Sergeant Frank Parker, the onetime boy wonder and Davis Cupper, whose mechanical, methodical steadiness had often carried him close, but never quite to, the title. Parker, with a day of rest after his four-set semifinal win over Lieut. Don McNeil, was on the top of his smooth game. Talbert's only hope was to reach the net, and he seldom managed it except in the second set. Parker...
...year-old Kerr Eby, now painting for the Marines. It was a pencil drawing of weary, bent men on the march under a sky filled with a ponderous black cloud. Artist Eby says that the cloud hung in the sky for three days; the Germans thought it was an omen...
...accepted a bad check drawn on the Lincoln County Bank, which used to be right across the street until it closed ten years ago. For Luck. In San Francisco, Tharn-midsbe L. Praghustspondgifeem, who was known as Edward L. Hayes before he started building combinations of good-omen words, petitioned the Superior Court for permission to change his name to Miswaldpornghuestficset Balstemdrigne-shofwintpluasjof Wrandvaistplondqesky-crufemgeish. Ruble Trouble. In Manhattan, Mrs. Tatiana Jemtchoujnikov sued to recover $24,600 on a loan of 50,000 Tsarist rubles her husband made in 1918 to Jacques Zolotnitzky, who offered to settle for one-millionth...