Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prophet Smith was without honor in his own county. His neighbors, hearing of his discovery, were more anxious to get the gold than the gospel. When Joseph Smith explained he had returned his treasure to Moroni, mobs dug up most of Hill Cumorah without finding the plates-which have since been as elusive as the Holy Grail. Irate, they drove Prophet Smith out of New York...
...period. Some missionaries are themselves converts. One such at Cumorah was blond, square-set Hollywood bit player Burnett Ferguson, who plans a return to acting when his evangelistic stint is done. Missionary Ferguson, whose last cinema appearance was in Dawn Patrol, had a fiery role last week as the prophet Abinadi, was burnt at the stake...
...thousand other farm houses in the U. S. it had a sign TOURISTS. Its distinction is that there for $1 a tourist may sleep in the very bedroom where, according to the sober belief of 750.000 respectable people, an angel of God first appeared to a divinely chosen prophet...
...Prophet Smith's early dictums set the penalty of instant death for anyone who sold the book for under...
...drawing teacher and is now chief mystagogue of National Socialism, spends much of his time in private sanatoria. He dreams of a vast Germanic-pagan world in which Teutonic supermen live in ideological bliss. Rational Germans, few of whom possess the Nordic qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into the disturbed European ether or even...