Word: propheteers
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...French banks have advised against the dollar and French newspapers have attacked it,* recalled the Beaverbrook Evening Standard as his new friendliness flowered, "but American business character today is strong and good. . . . We say, therefore ... to the American people ... in the words of the prophet, Nahum, 'Keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.' And we say too: 'May God's blessing go with...
...wife Fedora, has just been robbed of a fortune in stocks & bonds. Ambitious Rustic Trux calls attention to himself by prophesying, from a bit of the man's handwriting, who the thief would turn out to be. Though his clairvoyant accusation carries no legal weight, subsequent tests confirm his prophetic powers. He is taken up as a curiosity by Millionaire Bassan, falls in love with vampirish Fedora, prophesies her husband's death. Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time. Prophet Trux, for vanity's sake and feline Fedora, for caution...
Briand: My good friend Stresemann, I am not a prophet but I truly think there are two things history will not say; that this time, France was the aggressor, or that Belgium invaded Germany. (Hilarity from Herr Stresemann...
...Faithful, holiest of months is Ramadan when by command of the prophet no Mussulman may eat from dawn to sunset. Ramadan ended last week, spectacularly in three places...
...some extent Dr. Butler is a prophet greater outside his own country than in it. Certainly he has not acquired the position of national wiseman occupied by Har vard's late great Charles William Eliot. Although often held up as a horrible ex ample of mass-production-educator, he is better appreciated by the superior few who recognize the quality of his own ideas than by the democratic many for whom he spreads out a quantity of learning. But whether he is judged by the institution he created or by the friends he has made, it could be said...