Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspicious Kandahar Afghans plump Amanullah promised last fortnight to show the famed Khirkai Shereef (Prophet's Cloak), a religious relic of great potency kept in a locked box which only "a man fit to be King" can open. The holy cloak has rarely been seen for the last 200 years. Bearded Afghans assembled by thousands for the show...
...Congress and on the political stump. Whether the Treasury estimates are accurate or not is highly debatable. Secretary Mellon can quickly prove that Mr. McCoy's errors as a fiscal forecaster are negligible. At the Capitol, the Treasury's actuary can be and often is made out a worthless prophet. But there is no disputing this fact about Mr. McCoy: if and when his estimates err, it is on the cautious side?over for Deficit, under for Surplus. Perhaps his merry mien is due in some measure to his delight in always finding that the U. S. Government...
...longer will an Albanian husband divorce his wife at pleasure in the Moslem manner simply by exclaiming three times, "I divorce thee-thou art no longer my wife!"* The minutest private acts of Albanians need no longer conform to the precepts of the True Prophet. Finally a salutary Swiss provision against carrying concealed weapons will completely alter, if it can be enforced, one of the most cherished customs of Albanians, who have always gone about with loaded pistols and sharp snicker-snees in their dirty blouses...
...first person from the breathless vastness where He reigns. Here are tales of Noah, Moses, Joseph, of the great Horned Alexander; here is denounced the idolatry of those who worship Christ as the Son of God. The Koran was dictated by, or remembered from the sayings of, the great Prophet to whom Angel Gabriel brought messages. In heaven is Allah's "well-guarded tablet" and on earth, in the mosques of Allah, the Koran is for all to see on hanging tablets. They bear the Holy Words written in dainty, writhing Arabic script. Barefooted Mohammedans glance at them often...
...renewal of the order to Latinize the Koran. The other, even more radical, was a slight Christianizing of Mohammedan ritual. Correspondents reported that this would include the wearing of shoes and slippers in the mosques instead of leaving them at the door as good Mohammedans have done since the prophet's day. Moreover, instead of kneeling on prayer rugs, the Kemalized Mohammedans may be seated in pews...