Word: oracularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...