Word: portentous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week: three more blast furnaces (two at Birmingham and one at Chicago) were blown out; the summer decline in automotive steel buying had set in strongly.† Last week's rise, slight as it was, in the face of all these unfavorable factors may well have been a portent that steel production has reached the irreducible minimum, the rock bottom below which no depression can sink...
Cleveland music-lovers and city-boosters looked into the sky one afternoon last week for a portent. Suddenly from the Union Terminal Tower a great white banner with a diagonal red stripe was flung to the breeze. The weather that evening would be fine. The Opera...
...your suspicion confirmed. Defenders of the old-line detective story might object that The Glass Key is less a detective than a crime story. But whether you are a squeamish voyager among books or so hardened that the roaring forties seem like the doldrums, this book will be a portent and a welcome...
Proceedings revealed last week that a German Army officer who reports to the Ministry of Defense about a brother officer's subversive opinions is likely to receive from the Ministry a solid gold watch engraved with mysterious portent Hindenburg...
...dies out of sympathy. The nurse (Haidee Wright), having evidently wished on the necklace for eternal life, survives. Only in the second act does Mrs. Moonlight seem anything like plausible. The supporting characters generally seem as puzzled as the audience about the proper attitude to be taken toward the portent they are witnessing. But the play again proves the dramatic theorem that if you want to make any audience blow its nose and wipe its eyes, have the principals sing the same songs and say the same lines in the last act as they have previously sung and said...