Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smiling prophet of woe, Indiana's Senator Watson, now Republican leader, went to the White House to tell President Hoover that the special session of Congress would probably extend through the summer and into the autumn. President Hoover heard this prediction without...
...wares would be to sin against the Holy Ghost. ... By all means let our commercial houses engage skilled but nameless scribes to write their advertisements as such. But a writer who has been consecrated by Fame to the service of the public, and has thus become prophet as well as author, must take wages in no other service...
...achievement behind in his share in the establishing of TIME. He was one of those men who shows their powers early and realize all expectations. I knew him as an undergraduate editor of a college daily-afterwards as the pioneer of a new kind of magazine and as a prophet of an accomplished success in the magazine world, just as energetic and as ambitious as in the beginning, and with as great possibility of further advance. His death has deprived us of one of the coming leaders of American journalism...
...when he reaches Cana of Galilee, this prophet of the Republican party, perhaps we shall hear of a miracle-the changing of wine back into water-diametrically opposed to the one requested by the Mother of the Master...
Answered Mr. Root: "I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet...