Word: portentousness
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...comparatively unexcited by another Ohio G. O. P. victory, the expected 2-to-1 election of plutocratic Frances Payne Bingham Bolton* of Cleveland to succeed her late husband, Chester C. Bolton. Sharp-witted Mrs. Bolton was a gilt-edged financial asset, but Coshocton Contractor McGregor was a real homespun portent...
Next came a bigger portent-to Republican ears, a first toot on a 1940 trump of doom for the Democrats. Alvin Vinton ("Honest Vic") Donahey, Democratic Senator from Ohio since 1934, announced his retirement...
...Communist pamphlets last week, Harvard is now facing nationwide criticism. In its erroneous news story, the New York Times went so far as to imply a full-fledged university drive against the "red menace." Perhaps blinded by the nearness of the horizon, the Yale News perceived a "grim portent" and editorially lamented that "the university which has given more liberal thinkers to the nation than any other should be the one to lose faith in academic freedom...
...Associated Gas & Electric Co., was so ill he was under an oxygen tent. Since Mr. Hopson has often been "ill" when the Government wanted him for hearings and investigations of his fabulous operations, many a cynic wondered whether the utility magnate's latest indisposition was a portent of further trouble...
Kansas produced no score for or against Franklin Roosevelt in the immediate primary game, since the New Deal's Kansas candidates were virtually unopposed. But in the Republican voting came a possible portent for November-the nomination of onetime (1929-31) Governor Clyde M. Reed for the Senate in a heavy G. O. P. vote. Superficial but spectacular was Mr. Reed's defeat...