Word: foreshadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with the sudden cancellation of the Japanese-U.S. Treaty of Commerce of 1911, the Japanese had a rude awakening. The press scarcely knew what to make of it; political leaders were reluctant to tell the people that the treaty's abrogation might well foreshadow an economic blockade. Tatsuo Kawai, the fastidious, chubby-faced Foreign Office spokesman who gives the foreign press interviews thrice weekly, called the U.S. action "unbelievably abrupt," admitted that it was "highly susceptible of being interpreted as having political significance." At first it was suggested that the U.S. might be ready to conclude...
Signing of the contract brings to 6,000 the number of Harlau Country miners now working or ready to work under union shop agreements, and was believed to foreshadow an early end to the contract deadlock which has closed half of the mines in this area...
...this fashion, New York's legislators carefully made their law independent of the Federal Act, which was not, therefore, at issue in the Supreme Court last week. But since principles were virtually the same, most observers believed that a Supreme Court decision against the New York law would foreshadow the doom of the Federal measure's unemployment provisions...
...intimidates the Court with the warning that the whole financial structure of the New Deal will go to seed with the rest of the country unless a favorable verdict is returned. The President himself seems anxious for an early ruling. But in no uncertain terms, the Court appears to foreshadow an unfavorable stand by the unprecedented action in announcing that the customary Court routine in handing down decisions on Mondays would not be followed this week...
...novel since The Great Gatsby (1925). Somehow during those intervening years the news had leaked out that Author Fitzgerald had big ambitions, would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel in which a son kills his mother. Readers last week were relieved to discover that Tender Is the Night is built to no such outlandish specifications...