Word: portentions
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...yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern chair; the scurrying forms occupied by nothing, the sight of Sever's portent walls, ugly without benefit of age, called in him a longing for life, for knowledge, for power, and love, ere it were too late. In the distance was the rumble of vernal thunder. Starting the old fellow from his melancholy reverie came a knocking, one, two,--three. He rose hastily...
...during which their power over Congress and the country had been practically supreme. The great dam they had built against the "liquor traffic" had cracked, they were helpless to stem the ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult too loudly. Responsibility was sobering even the most rampant anti-Prohibitors...
...into it by a Democrat or a Progressive Republican after the bill came from the Treasury Department. . . . The very fact that not one dollar of the corporation's debentures has been offered to private investors but every dollar of them unloaded on the Federal Treasury is a clear portent of the burden the taxpayers will be compelled to endure. President Hoover has converted the Treasury into a national pawnshop and infected the central government with the fatal germ of financial socialism...
...half-dozen little Kansas towns, just before each sundown last week, a great melancholy voice was heard wailing sad cowboy songs through the ochre twilight. Citizens investigating the cause of this portent, successively at Liberal, Coldwater, Salina, Herington, discovered a strange motorcade called "Ammunition Train No. I." The sides of a motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform. Generators supplied current for a battery of lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first...
Your program is an intelligent effort to distribute news, and give one the real feeling of its portent. Anyone can get up and read news dispatches; there are many of these on the air. . . . But, to have news happenings re-enacted: with all their life; giving the listener a physical feeling of living with the news-that is something. . . . You have grouped a body of men and women who have given your program the excellence which it deserves...