Word: omened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart is Dr. Schacht that his resignation was no good omen for the future of the Third Reich. He played the game of the Second Reich (which preceded the Nazis) adroitly for years-the game of Dr. Gustav Stresemann, "The Spirit of Locarno" and the Young Plan. When Dr. Schacht thought that game was up he resigned as President of the Reichsbank and appeared in the news less frequently-suddenly was found to be sitting on Adolf Hitler's bandwagon as President of the Reichsbank again (TIME, March...
...iron" the ''little iron" driver is inordinately susceptible to quirks and superstitions. No driver will paint his car green. No driver likes to catch sight of a customer munching peanuts. No driver will let a woman sit in his car. Lost shoes are also a bad omen, since the impact of a crash on a tightly-wedged driver often knocks him out of his shoes. Not so dangerous as "big iron" racing, the chief problem of the doodlebug driver is keeping his jealously guarded fuel mixture a secret...
...enemies." With a warning to American, British, oil and mining interests, Rightist sympathizers, that the revolution would proceed despite "discontent at popular conquests," the President sat down. As he did so a cameraman tumbled off the platform. Superstitious Congressmen muttered among themselves that this was a bad omen...
...King and his wife. The evening Star reported last week that the couple propose to devote their future to social work in England as soon as "calumnies and slander" have abated. A stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors sailed for the New World...
...social movement, but on the whole, the reflection is blurred. This, however, is not the point; "John Meade's Woman" is not a good picture in itself, but it does show the beginning of an awareness for a new type of material, and as such it is an omen...