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Word: seeress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark Stranger. In Brooklyn, a seeress accepted a $1 fee, cheerfully assured her customer that his troubles were over, realized too late that her own were just beginning when the customer showed his badge, hauled her in to pay a $100 fine for fortune telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Jumping Professors. Understandably, the astrologers were loath to discuss their boom. Said a Chicago seeress: "If I say anything about business, those professors will jump on us again." But they eagerly claimed that astrology ("the study of life's reactions to planetary vibrations") was a science that should be taught in U.S. colleges. Some stepped right up to write 1946's news stories in advance releases-a practice that was old in 1640, when William Lilly, the "English Merlin" (see cut) fascinated Parliament with his political predictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Will I Succeed? | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Seeress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Winners . . . | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

Between dances the Freshmen will be entertained by the mystical prophecies of Seeress Godel, whose strange Tibetan accent has been developed from her frequent seances with the ancient gods of the old East. Her accomplice gods of the old East. Her accomplice and equally-talented philosopher of the mystical sciences, "Mandrake George" will produce and bring to light the most fantastic and incorrigible figments of his imagination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks House Names Bartlett For Dance | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

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