Word: omens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immediate plans of the M. P. R. C.: a $2 to $100 per year membership drive to replenish the exhausted Payne Fund; a campaign to end "block booking." To observers familiar with the cinema industry, the M. P. R. C.'s objections to block booking seemed a bad omen. Block booking is the system whereby exhibitors rent pictures in job lots instead of singly. It gives producers an outlet for their unpopular pictures; it gives exhibitors an excuse for exhibiting morally bad pictures. All reform agencies in the cinema have objected to block booking; none has ever made...
...passage of the Critic will render any new attempt in this field increasingly difficult, since the past subscribers of that magazine would naturally be loath to risk their money on anew venture, and possible backing for another Fourth Publication could scarcely the expected to consider the precedent an suspicious omen for their hopes...
...more, fear of inflation for the first time seriously pressed down the price of U. S. bonds. Last week most important U. S. issues sold below par. People who had subscribed for new 4¼-3¼% bonds on Nov.1 at101½ found them selling at 99-an ill omen for future Government financing. With the new bonds selling at a discount conversions of 4th Liberties practically ceased, thereby threatening failure of the refunding operation...
...thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve some obsessing pain, a bell tolled the hour like a bad omen...
...daughter Ishbel, Prime Minister MacDonald had regained much of his philosophy. Newsmen asked if he were irked. Replied he: "Oh, gracious, no! It only brings into higher light the stress of the world." When he spied a ferryboat named President Roosevelt, he cried: "There, that's a good omen...