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...bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher's assistant from Lyons who claimed to be the reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah. Elijah fell from favor, died and his successors were swept out when the Princesses went...
...Ford) and the sergeant dismount the plane's machine gun, set fire to the plane and get back to the oasis under cover of the smoke. Sanders (Boris Karloff) goes mad and gets his bullet when he is stumbling across the sand with his clothes torn like a prophet's, carrying a cross. Morelli is killed trying to drag him back to safety. The sergeant has the machine gun and when the Arabs, veiled like ghosts, at last dare to come creeping over a ridge of sand toward the oasis, he sits up in the grave...
...spite of his lack of eloquence and his gift for wise cracks, his sincerity has so impressed Congress that one profane Senator after hearing him remarked: "If Roosevelt ever becomes Jesus Christ, he should have Harry Hopkins as his prophet...
LIKE Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, and the other great pagans who enjoyed, for whatever reason, a mediaeval reputation, Virgil was vulgared into a necromancer. Although to the learned few he was "poeta doctus," and was through the Fourth Eclogue the cherished prophet of the churchmen, the common legends centered about magic of a more obvious kind, and in them Virgil made glass talismans to confound the flies of Naples...
...believes that today we are in history's grandest age but sees no reason for individuals to be happy about it. "Greatness and happiness are incompatible and we are given no choice. No one living in any part of the world today will be happy. . . ." Conscious of his prophet's mantle, he says: "I see further than others ... I write not for a few months ahead or for next year, but for the future. . . . Among the few genuine historians of standing, none was ever popular. . . ." The old idealistic order is nearly over; the new day will be realistic...