Word: propheteers
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...latter were in consequence trying to right the matter by making an underestimate of the crop to raise cotton prices and allay political wrath. This is not the first time that political manipulation of the Washington crop estimates has been suspected and charged. However, the position of cotton prophet is a difficult one at best, and the crop itself is subject to sudden changes of condition in its present stage of growth...
...Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland is an admirable prophet. Employing no mysteries or obscure language, he states not only what he thinks of the future, but also why. Thus the reader of his predictions can judge not only his conclusions, but also his methods of arriving at them...
...Lord, whom ye seek, shall come suddenly to his temple, said that sharp little prophet, Malachi. Had any seeker for the Lord pushed his way through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized...
...Smoot is not the son of a prophet, but he is the man who said two years ago: "As sure as God lives and the sun rises in the morning, there will be a soldier bonus law passed by the next Congress...
...Brigham Young and others, scouring the U. S., England, Wales, Denmark, won many true believers and pious pro-creators, mostly women. Shiploads swarmed to Nauvoo. Returning from one proselyting campaign, Young found the Prophet shot dead by some Illinoisians who had chosen to regard him as a promulgator of "abominations and whoredoms...