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Henry Major Tomlinson's Gallions Reach and All Our Yesterdays got him a reputation for profundity. His publishers describe The Snows of Helicon as "a man's dream of beauty." Author Tomlinson at 60 is still oracular, but perhaps his latest work is better qualified as a rather young man's dream of beauty...
...Minister Benes said that he knew all the time what had been going on from secret sources, but that it had been his duty to pretend official ignorance. After roundly denouncing the proposed Austro-German pact, after promising to fight it tooth & nail, Dr. Benes wound up with an oracular prediction that the Teutons will not get what they want. "Not many things are eaten," he said smartly, "as hot as they are cooked...
...cold as well as unfit. Yet when Bill was killed in a laboratory explosion and Raphael came from Manhattan for her, she married Raphael and together they went traveling in Europe. By him she conceived at last, and a blood transfusion failed to save her life. An oracular gnome called Bolonowski, whose delicate embroidery seems to exude from her body like spider-thread, helps the author explain that these events are "a counsel to eagles, and a warning to their despoilers...
Fortnight ago the armies of the rebellious generals of the southern province of Kwangsi moved against Canton, capital of Kwantung province, rich, commercial seaport of the Nationalist Government. Canton's hasty preparations for defense seemed woefully inadequate. Oracular foreign correspondents took the fall of Canton for granted, foresaw a powerful rebellion against the Nanking government with the city of Canton as a base for the rebels. Such correspondents under estimated Kwantung strategy...
...interest in the human mass that was collecting below, filling every point of the building, wave upon wave. The Rev. Dr. Ripley of Concord, ninety years of age, commenced the services by prayer.... "The age that was past" seemed speaking to one and all this time-worn form with oracular energy. Then the following Ode "Fair Harvard" by the Rev. S. Gilman, was performed for the first time by a select choir...