Word: omens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flop after flop. She dreamed of London. Every year she and Estelle Winwood would call on an old Scottish woman named Mrs. Bunce, who told fortunes in a Manhattan brownstone. Mrs. Bunce's routine was to open a Bible and poke a needle into it for an omen. One year, probing for Tallulah's future, the needle stuck on the name Jezebel. "Oh, that's terrible," said Estelle. "Jezebel was thrown to the dogs." "Yes," throbbed Tallulah, "but first she rode with kings and princes...
...this, at least, according to the standards of the rest of the Division. In fact, Economics tutorial will still amount to much less than Government or History tutorial, which honors Juniors get as well as Seniors. So there can be no cheering the Department's decision as an omen of the return of the entire tutorial system. It is far from that...
...Parliament. A safe one was found: the Ottawa south riding of Carleton, where Tory Russel Boucher agreed to step down. In 25 elections Carleton has returned Tories 25 times, including Prime Ministers Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Robert Borden. The Drews could take that record as a good omen...
...Good Omen. At the end, just in front of the university macebearer, came General Ike himself, wearing the hood of an honorary LL.D. (trimmed in purple, for Law, and lined in blue & white, for Columbia). A ripple of applause followed Eisenhower down the aisle; he grinned at old friends like General Omar Bradley and Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, and saluted Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch...
Said Feller last week: "I won the first two games without having my best stuff. That may be a good omen." But the Indians have only one other first-rate pitcher, eager Bob ("Squeeze") Lemon. Boudreau's pitching prescription for the season: "Feller and Lemon, two days of rain, and then Feller and Lemon again...