Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorothy Thompson's father was a British-born Methodist lay preacher. Had she followed his will, she would have gone into church work. Instead she became a newspaper pundit. No churchgoer today, Miss Thompson, with her soprano invective, is in some ways like an Old Testament prophet whose voice has not yet changed. Last week she uttered some prophecies for 1940. Among them...
Your story on the general wrongness of Genevieve Tabouis was very fine (TIME, Dec. 11). However you say that this remarkable wrong-way prophet is taken more seriously in England and the U. S. A. than in her native France. In London Mme Tabouis is not taken seriously by "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton), Beaverbrook's amusing columnist for his two-million-circulation Daily Express. To "Beachcomber," Tabouis is Mme Tabouche (of L'Oeuf) who is continually seeking fulfillment of her prophecy that Iceland will march on Bessarabia...
Recently "Beachcomber" punned thus: "SMALL PROPHETS AND QUICK RETURNS. There is a rumor that a whale mistook Mme Tabouche of L'Oeuf for a prophet and swallowed her. On finding out its mistake, it released...