Word: nostradamus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost uncanny accuracy of the CRIMSON's annual predictions for the new year have puzzled and pleased our many readers for many years. The visions of what is yet to come own much of their accuracy to the inspiration which comes while sitting on copies of Nostradamus and Time magazine, chewing tea leaves and Turkish tobacco, and thinking about the glory that once was Rome and Harvard...
...Washington Post and Times Herald, which runs Columnist Drew Pearson on its comic page, let him get on the editorial page last week-as the target of a devastating letter. Signed "Nostradamus" (but known to the Post, which would identify him only as "a Washington magazine editor"), the letter writer noted that Pearson was reputed to score 85% in his "predictions of things to come." By recalling the columnist's Jan. 1 predictions for 1956, Nostradamus showed that Pearson had indeed approached 85%-but wrong. Among the predictions...
...solution to the French situation is in the prophecy of Nostradamus: France shall again have a king to unify the country...
Later, possibly to keep the fires burning briskly, Pagliacci slyly added that he had also been influenced by his recollection of one of the prophecies of the 16th Century mystic Nostradamus, forecasting a day of doom when "the horses of the Cossacks will drink from the holy water fonts of St. Peter's." To set the record straight, he explained that he has mild anarchist and atheist tendencies, but is strongly antiCommunist...