Word: portentous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in her native Philadelphia, a goddess died. No portent marked her passing, and though she had been a goddess for 48 of her 68 years on earth, few of her multitudinous devotees would have known that their divinity was dead if explanations had not been made in her obituaries. Few indeed of the millions and millions of worshipers who carried her effigy with them-at toil and at play, in sickness and in health-as their most valued icon, suspected that she had lived a mortal existence...
...cultural heritage of the new Japan is identical with that of the old, Europe has played the unsuccessful alchemist, in stirring things up without changing their nature. Japan, with her numbers and her new activity, must now attract the social student, as a portent rather than a prey...
...gold-standard currency. The Governor, who is an Eton man and served through the South African War before he became interested in finance, is as silent as a whole graveyard. Neither U. S. nor British reporters, earnest, inquiring, persistent, could drag from him one word of the portent of his U. S. mission...
...unrecognized politicians as a springboard to project them into the charmed circle of successful ringsters. The policies of the country are dictated by alternating clans, surviving from the old classification of nobles, who use the imperial throne as a shrouding curtain for their intrigues. But the most ominous political portent is not distrust in the obviously transplanted institution of parliament, but the total absence of any temperate party which looks to the ending of current abuses by political means and to the gradual modification of present institutions by pearceful methods. Political interest in Japan, excluding a majority of the workers...
...horizon is ex-Cabinet Minister Winston Spencer Churchill, who is now a full-fledged Conservative. It was said that never before has the Party been so short of able leaders. Ex-Premier Stanley Baldwin is, however, the de jure leader of the Party, although the signs and portent were that "Winnie" was fast becoming the de facto leader...