Word: prophetizer
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...modern economic monsters with sufficient power of intellectual direction at the top has already become evident." He thinks Roosevelt "undeniably the greatest Republican President since Lincoln." For Wilson he reserves higher praise: "Here once more was the authentic voice of the great American democracy; here once more was the prophet speaking of the American dream, of that hope of a better and richer life for all the masses of humble and ordinary folk who made the American nation. It was the voice once more of the democratic frontier, of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Lincoln...
There should be at least one Babbitt course in every Harvard man's curriculum if only because he is Harvard's most honouredd prophet in every country but his own. This particular one carries on the good only family fond; Babbitt, I., vs. Rousseau et al. You'll enjoy Les Confessions (the English editions are expurgated) along with an apple and a fire on a few could autumn evenings; and when spring rolls around there's La Neuvelle Heloise to be read aloud on the shores of Walden Pond. You'll learn all about conchiliomania (a disease...
Heads were sagely wagged on both sides of the Pacific Ocean last week when it became evident that Pilots Don Moyle and Cecil A. Allen had failed in their attempt to fly from Samishiro Beach, Japan to Seattle. Many & many a prophet could say "I told you so." The orange monoplane was sighted through the rain by a steamer no mi. from the starting point. It was not seen again. Following night the captain of another steamer off the coast of Alaska thought he heard a plane overhead, but there was no further clue. Weather was bad. Neither Moyle...
Elsewhere in Islam than at Meknes, no such lavish gestures marked the observance of Mohammed's birthday. Celebrations of the Prophet's anniversary vary locally, like those of Christmas, but they preserve in general an orderly and charitable character appropriate to Mohammed's disclaimer of divinity. In Egypt, Mevloud is a holiday which Moslems devote to house-to-house visiting, attending services at the mosques. In Constantinople, the minarets are lighted, the orphans and poor, as elsewhere in Islam, receive food and candy...
...descendant of the Prophet and local gov ernor of Mecca...