Word: oracularity
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...November, the potent National Education Association appointed a nationally representative committee of ten (teachers, headmasters, deans) to investigate public utility propaganda in schools. Dr. Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia public schools, was made chairman. Last fortnight, Dr. Broome spoke. Oracular, he seemed to mean more than he said when he said: "It is the unanimous conviction of the committee that the function of the school is to teach children how to think, not what to think. It is not right to indoctrinate the minds of young people with either one side or the other of controversial questions...
...shrewd village elder as insane and therefore a sacred oracle, Blettsworthy eagerly assumed the role which preserved him from the dinner-pot. It was an easy part, for everything he said sounded mad enough, concerning as it did another, and therefore impossible world. The elder, interpreting these mad oracular utterances as convenient, found his Sacred Lunatic a useful alternative for the tribal totems, miniature sloths, to whose whispered advices all unpopular policies were attributed. These wriggly, but sacred, little animals were distantly related to the race of Great Ground Sloths, evil-smelling Megatheria, who persisted though they did not reproduce...
...noosed the cumbrous pachyderm of the violin species, has dragged him up out of the orchestral cellar and has revealed him to us as a creature who does not merely gambol with grotesque ponderosity, or grumble in discontented servitude, or speak oracular solemnities, but who can sing with pride and independence and lyric fervor, with something of the cello's poignantly vibrant utterance in its upper register, yet with a fullness of body, a dark and beautiful austerity, and an amplitude of sombre richness that no cello is able to attain...
...finger one last, perhaps decisive time into his Party's pie, employing the impressive gesture of a speech about U. S. finances in the most recent year of his Administration. Last week he remained no more and no less a candidate than he had been since his oracular "choice" of last August. Some observers believed that he might utter an Absolute Negative before or at the Budget meeting, for one of two purposes: to clear the track completely for Candidate Hoover, or to discountenance finally the Coolidge-anyway movement, of which the latest slogan, attributed last week to Committeeman...
Roundly cheered by the striplings of Birkenhead School last year he dropped one last pearl of oracular wisdom: "While you are young, cultivate the habit of industry. I regret that I never...