Word: prophetizer
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...deepest polarizations of the human intellect caught up with Frederick H. Zurmuhlen, New York City Commissioner of Public Works. As a result, a half-ton statue of the Prophet Mohammed last week was lying flat on its back in a Newark storehouse...
Artist Malskat was delighted when he heard visiting experts point to "the magic eye of yonder prophet," refrained from pointing out: "Yonder prophet was my father, a Königsberg secondhand clothing dealer." Malskat watched visitors gaze in rapt concentration at "the peaceful lines in the face of the old Gothic King," unaware that they were actually looking at Malskat's portrait of Rasputin. "I learned a lot of things about my art," Malskat told the court. A student, basing her doctor's thesis on the murals, wrote: "The splendid figure of Mary bears the brush marks...
...within four years. Such a cut would eliminate the deficit in the budget." Reminding the reporters that his new budget, after two years, is $62.4 billion, and the deficit is down to $2.4 billion, the President said with a happy grin: "I almost can claim credit for being a prophet...
...over Britain, snow, freeze-ups, floods and gale winds appeared in full fury. The freak week began with the biggest, blackest cloud of smog within London's memory, suddenly enveloping the nation's noontime capital in midnight darkness. Pedestrians scurried for shelter, and one bearded old prophet paraded in front of Croydon Town Hall crying aloud, "The end of the world has come." The thickest snows in eight years covered all British counties except Cornwall, which had instead the worst floods of half a century. The National Automobile Association officially reported "the worst mixture of terrible road conditions...
...Europe one sees, behind an imposing façade of socialist voting strength, symptoms of doubt, confusion and intellectual decay. So far as Karl Marx is remembered at all, there is a growing realization that, far from being an infallible prophet, history has proved him a pretentious humbug, dismally wrong in some of his most fundamental dogmas...