Word: omened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White. Whole Wheat. Two melancholy goats ask. "What do people do with their garbage nowadays?" Political note: An unmistakable plutocrat with cigar and limousine appears above the caption: "The manufacturer of shirts of various colors." A fleeing burglar carrying an undersized parcel of swag is hailed as an encouraging omen...
Recovery began in Great Britain when she unhooked Sterling from gold, scrapped traditional free trade and set her industries humming behind new tariff walls. Today this hum has become a "boom" with riveters dinning all day in and out of London. Last week came another omen of British recovery as hawk-nosed, stoop-shouldered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loosened the Empire's money bags a trifle and dangled the prospect of loans before countries which have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo on loaning British...
...good omen was the finding in London, just before Sir Bernard left, of a pair of legs in a suitcase left at King's Cross Station which proved to be the legs of the Brighton torso. As he went to work Sir Bernard Spilsbury preserved the Sherlock Holmes tradition of keeping mum, but he had his Dr. Watson in Chief Detective Pelling. The sole clue seemed to be that both legs and torso were wrapped in the same sort of brown wrapping paper and on the paper around the torso appeared the letters...
...weighing 1 1/4 tons, costing some $25,000 most of which has been handed down from Enterprise. Her 165-ft. duralumin mast was made by the Glenn L. Martin airplane plant in Baltimore, shipped North in sections. When he selected her name, Skipper Vanderbilt sentimentalized thus: "Rainbow is an omen significant of rift, and parting of the clouds, indicating fair sailing and better times ahead...
Eugen went to St. Stephan's Cathedral and heard mass, then walked to the palace of the Teutonic Order, then to another church to pray. When he saw troops of little girls in starched white dresses with paper flowers in their hair, it seemed a good omen. It was the first Thursday after Whitsunday, Vienna's traditional day for confirmations. Said he: "I have returned as a private person and I am glad to be able to spend the eventide of my life in the Fatherland." The Government announced that his reception in Vienna was thoroughly unofficial...