Word: clairvoyante
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At Leitmeritz last week it pleased the court to engage in a game of hide & seek. Finder was Herman Scheinschneider-who prefers to be called Erik Hanussen-a clairvoyant whose services include discovering lost property, giving stock tips, fortune telling.
Industrious Herr Scheinschneider receives $12 per consultation, professes to be able to solve 80% of the problems brought him. One client, Professor Albert Einstein, left him declaring: "Wunderbar! I am astounded!" But because 34 of the clairvoyant's clientele accused him of being a faker and haled him into...
Lady Doyle stood up. The clairvoyant's eyes moved as though accompanying a person who was approaching her. "He is wearing evening clothes," she murmured. She inclined her head to listen. A silent moment. Her head jerked up. She stared at Lady Doyle, shivered, ran to the widow, whispered.
The clairvoyant to Lady Doyle: "The message is this. Tell Mary [eldest daughter]. . . ."
Prophecy is no new business for Professor Fisher, whose last previous prophetic utterance, however, proved false. Last fall Professor Fisher was prominent among the bull economists who saw no evil in the bull market. He scoffed at bearish forebodings, and even after the bull market had broken he compared its...