Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shudder passed through the Moslem world last week: three sacred hairs from the beard of the Prophet Mohamed were missing from each of two Istanbul mosques...
...Georgio de Chirico who fathered surrealism before World War I. But the Prophet soon lost the Faith, and his Paris disciples excommunicated him in 1926; even if he still lived, they said, Chirico was dead. Last week the old outlaw of the cult raised a rumpus...
William Lendrum ("Billy") Mitchell, late great prophet of air power, whose refusal to be silenced led to his court-martial in 1925 for "insubordination," got a token payment on the debt owed him by the U.S. The House finally got around to passing a bill-which the Senate had already sent down twice-authorizing the award of a special Congressional Medal of Honor...
Dark, fierce-eyed Otto Klemperer has the awe-inspiring, fiery look of an Old Testament prophet. And, like Job, he has been sorely afflicted. Last week, at 61, after years of tragedy, Conductor Klemperer was making a European comeback...
Died. James ("Jimmy") Maxton, 61, firebrand leader for 19 years of the tiny Independent Labor Party in Britain's House of Commons, variously known as "most popular M.P.," "the Wild Man from the Clyde" and "the Rebel without an Enemy," brilliant Socialist prophet and author (If I were Dictator); after long illness; in Largs, Scotland. Cadaverous, lank-haired Jimmy Maxton once enraged fellow Scots by saying: "I think porridge just one of the greatest swindles ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that it has any food value...