Word: omens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci. His re-emergence last week on the very pinnacle of power, at the right hand of Il Duce, seemed of black omen for Italy...
...intoned her need, no one could understand why it was not instantly gratified; Louise Brown pretended charmingly to be a Colonel's daughter. While its colours were a little too bright, the Rainbow was a pleasant thing to see and, because of its rowdy theme, a good omen for future minstrelsies...
Bulls called this reaction "corrective," "salutary," "reassuring." But the market's stubborn bears held it an omen of a real break to come. On the same day, Economist Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conference Board, spoke Spanish words at the Hotel Astor (Manhattan). He warned: "Prosperity in the present situation is rather a state of mind than a fact. ... It is an illusion created by extraordinary financial conditions, by exceptional activity in production of certain types of goods. . . ." These goods, he noted, included many luxuries, few necessities. He cited depression in industries producing food, clothing, coal, transportation...
Because President Irigoyen, during his previous term (1916-22), gave aid and comfort to numerous striking unions, his present attitude was hailed, last week, in the Bolsa de Comerxia or "Wall Street" of Buenos Aires as of favorable omen...
...daughter-in-law. They returned to a house full of people, sandwiches, chrysanthemums, telegraph tickers and commotion, to wait and hear how many millions of citizens were voting the way the Hoovers had voted. If Mrs. Hoover thought about the black cat during the day, there was another "omen," too. It was not only Mrs. Smith's birthday, but Herbert Hoover...