Word: omen
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...still showing signs of life but with its head firmly imbedded in the bird's gizzard, was a 15-in. grass snake. Gunner Giachino put the innards with snake attached, on show in a jar of alcohol in the window of the Reilly Picture Shop at Laurium. ¶ Omen of a cold winter: partridges' legs are heavily feathered this year...
Another good omen last week was a sudden increase in telegraph business, so pronounced that Western Union felt it had to tell the public. Each of the company's eight geographical divisions did better than the week before, the average increase in business communications being between...
...cobra fixed him with its jeweled eyes, he sat crosslegged, giving back stare for stare. For ten minutes neither moved a muscle. Then the warden returned, clubbed the cobra to death. "That was wrong," said St. Gandhi severely. "The cobra's visit was a good omen...
...revolt of worthy middle-class G. O. Partisans against their party because of hard times. The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune called it "the severest jolt the party has yet sustained." The Democrats, to whom it gave a House majority of two, trumpeted it as a bright omen...
...that Their Majesties could land at 4 p.m., the hour prescribed by Siamese omen readers as best, the royal yacht took the royal party off the S. S. Empress of Canada in which they crossed the Pacific, then waited just out of sight of Bangkok until the Auspicious Hour...