Word: omens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around. He, Alfred E. Smith Jr.,* son of New York's famed Governor, Alfred E. Smith, had won his spurs in his first murder case. Democrats who hope to see Governor Smith installed in the White House, saw in his son's success a new and good omen. For most U. S. Presidents who have bred sons have bred smart ones,- witness President Adams the Elder, Harrison the Elder, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft...
...Sherman rather subtly draws for us the smug delight with which two sisters thrust at one another with kindly malice. Farther on, we have a romance of sorority life wherein the benefits of coeducation (absit omen!) are faithfully set down. Now both authors write of love after the college fashion, and accordingly you are bound to recognize some undergraduate friend "be he scholar, be he spark". Consider, for example, the diplomatic telephone call, the battle of wits in the margin of a library book, and there...
This announcement would at first sight appear to shine like a good omen in a world of unweaned radicals. But examination proves it to be no more than a tardy sanity. "No more Reforms" signifies nothing, since reforms in the best sense result only from a desire to remove evils, and even the cheeriest optimist cannot hope to forestall all corruptions. The News' resolve to avoid platforms is praiseworthy, only because such platforms are usually a collection of meaningless sentences...
...gratifying to witness such an academic swarming. No one can see in this mass phenomenon anything but a good omen, even if many individuals would have greater benefit from the disciplines of the every-day world. It is only, however, when those without serious intellectual purpose dominate the mass that the gravity of numbers becomes something other than a benign promise. It is especially of interest to notice in the announcements of the leading universities this year the increasing exchange of teachers with universities in other parts of the world. If this could take place to some considerable extent among...
...established his personal headquarters last week upon an armored train near Peking. Chang, according to his wont, ensconced himself amid urban luxury. Barbarian that he is, he is said to treasure still a cheap Connecticut alarm clock, acquired in his youth under circumstances of good omen. Conferees Swelter. With the approach of Peking's blistering summer the delegates of the nine Washington Treaty Powers, assembled at Peking (TIME, Nov. 2), grew not unnaturally restive last week. The Chang-Wu-fostered Premier of China, Dr. W. W. Yen (TIME, May 10), resigned early in the week, abandoned the farce...