Word: prophetizer
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...fame as the spokesman of cubism. His language wears silk. He has written innumerable essays upon such subjects as The Artist's Vision, Art and Socialism, Ancient American Art, Art and Life, Vision and Design. Young painters, students in England, France, the U.S., have hailed him as their prophet...
...should be, we believe. As the modern university is organized, the office of President requires a combination prophet, business man, booster and expert on amortization. Dean Pound might be all of these. But he knows that the teacher is the man around whom any educational system ultimately revolves and that no finer opportunity comes to any man than to work with younger minds, to train those minds and set them thinking. New York World...
...sides-one glowering, the other lifted in perpetual satire, as if stretched in infancy by an enormous monocle; Lord Hovenden who, for all his 21 years, pronounced the "th" in "thingumabob" as a "v," but had a 'wonderful physique and a motor car; Mr. Calamy, 'by inclination a minor prophet, by fate an amorist, whose talent for meditation incessantly scuffled with his genius for seduction; Falx, Guild Socialist, who was amazed and deeply shocked at the characters, at the conversations of these people...
Arose, many moons ago, Mrs. Margaret Rowen, prophet of the reformed Seventh Day Adventist Church,* to predict the world's end, saying: "My son will return on February 6, 1925. Proclaim it-proclaim it from the skies...
...stacks upon stacks of volumes in Widener, and has, like Emerson, computed the hours it would take him to read the books in even one corner of that mammoth collection will recognize the present truth of this half-century old observation. In other matters Emerson often had a prophetic insight. So far the remedy he suggested for an overdose of libraries has not been used, but there is no reason why in this case, too, he cannot he heralded a prophet...