Word: portent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Travis putting had long been a byword before Mr. Travis won abroad. Then it became an international portent. The British Golf Association passed a rule against centre-shafted clubs like the "Schenectady"* putter Mr. Travis had used with such deadly effect...
...ponderous English amateur, led the whole flight with 144. But the main galleries followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting his second shot on the edge of the huge plateau green. Peering off at the cup about 40 yards away, he said: "This...
Three U. S. Senators. The unfolding progress of the Chinese Nationalist advance upon Peking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) loomed with such vital portent last week that three U. S. Senators were busy in China, making personal investigations on the spot. Senator Hiram Bingham, Connecticut Republican, pushed his tour of China (TIME, May 9) to the extreme of venturing 400 miles up the great river Yangtze, last week into the very heart of "Chinese Communist" territory. Since he traveled on a U. S. warboat, the Senator was effusively greeted at Hankow by the "Communist" Foreign Minister Eugene Chen (TIME...
...sent news even more reassuring: "There are no Italian troops whatever in Albania." Yet, such is the persistence of the war rumor (TIME, Jan. 10) that major statesmen in the chief European capitals found time to inform correspondents last week that Albania is "a perilous zone ... a looming danger . . . portent . . . menace...
...nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super-power plant for Samuel Insull in Chicago. A book about such a son of Progress by the dean of Gothic America would be, in itself, an architectural portent...