Word: betokened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outcome of the World Economic Conference has brought sharply into focus the issue of economic nationalism. The dramatic announcement by Norman Davis and Secretary Hull of the end of American isolation coupled with President Roosevelt's early enthusiasm for tariff reduction, seemed to betoken a return to a policy of low tariffs and Wilsonian internationalism. But if the Administration's ardor for the removal of trade barriers ever burned very strong, it has apparently cooled with a growing sentiment that the New Deal can best be achieved within a closed economic structure...
...exhibiting the works of Harvard and Radcliffe students. The paintings sparsely covering the walls of the Society's two rooms have drawn from the critics rather favorable comment. The few drawings and etchings are of a like caliber, but the works exhibited seem by their small numbers to betoken a lack of talent in the University which is not the case. To the critical artist the exhibition is apparently satisfying, but for the student who has gone to see the works of his contemporaries, the fewness of those who are represented makes against the interest of the showing...
...York, 12-year-old Jane Ruby lay ill of pneumonia. Near her bed four newborn spitz puppies squirmed in a box. Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken a distinguished past. In & out of the Ruby abode pranced a black spitz bitch named Fluffy, raising her family, amusing the sick girl, bringing companionship into the life of old Laborer Smith. Then one day last week Covetousness reared its ugly head...
...sugar-lumps as a sign of abstraction--all these held no charm for the Playgoer, while the very smoothness and finish of the performance depressed him. For as he watched Mr. Shaw's infinitely competent capering, he hoped for just one little slip, one engaging little faux-pas to betoken the amateur spirit. But infallibly Mr. Shaw knows when to smile, when to wait for applause. Mr. Shaw has been playing juveniles since 1908, and from his deadly perfection there is no escape...