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This is no good omen for Edda Ciano's hopes that she and her husband may someday succeed to her father's power. But it is a first-rate demonstration of what a woman can do even in a Fascist world...
...never sent him to school. Instead, his fresh talent was nourished by observing nature and studying the old Chinese masters. By the time he reached 16, Chang was also writing poems, verse so good that it attracted the attention of distinguished Chinese men of letters. This was an omen not to be taken lightly, for no Chinese artist may hope to succeed unless he is also a poet, and no poet can reach top rank unless he is capable of illustrating his works visually...
Last week George VI and Queen Elizabeth became the first ruling British monarchs to set foot on the New World. As it happened, the first foot each set down when they left the gangplank of the Empress of Australia at Quebec was the left foot. This ill omen was somewhat reflected in the reserved manner in which Quebec's French-speaking citizenry received them, causing New York Timesman John MacCormac to observe: "Canadian crowds are given to taking their pleasures silently, if not sadly." But the farther west Their Majesties went on their 26-day Canadian trip, the more...
...Whalen stoutly denies there is any likelihood of loss from war. He argues that only 500,000 of his hoped-for visitors are expected from Europe, that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 succeeded in the face of a war, and that anyhow there is a strong nonwar omen in the fact that foreign exhibitors have not been holding back...
...word auspice, meaning sign or omen, is telescoped from the Latin words avis, bird, and specere, to see. In ancient Rome the appearance and behavior of birds-whether they were eagles, vultures, owls, crows, or ravens, which direction they flew, how they ate grains of corn-determined whether public assemblies should be held, whether armies should attack, whether merchants should be bullish or bearish...