Word: prophetic
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...files will repay dusty fingers by evidence of those who worked before. True, all have not become book-of-the month-club writers or powerful publishers, indeed some have strayed so far as the White House, an older president, or the daily column of America's most quoted political prophet...
...Illinois Department, got lost during the "40-&-8" parade. At this year's meeting so established was the phrase, everyone simply addressed everyone else as Elmer. Thousands of Elmers gave St. Louis a four-day spectacle which could not have been equaled by a combination of Veiled Prophet Night, Repeal Night, Armistice Night and New Year...
...words, for sensitive, original observation. He also revealed an emotional and intellectual instability that became more apparent as he grew older. He attended Hiram College, a Campbellite institution, kept detailed diaries in which he developed grandiose poetic projects, studied the Bible and Poe, aspired to be both a major prophet and an independent thinker. Half-starved while attending an art institute in Chicago, he fled to New York, where he peddled his poems on the street at 2? apiece. Lonely, celibate, driven by feverish ambition, he tramped through the country, begging, sometimes reading and selling his poems, returned to Springfield...
...quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James Harvey Rogers, who lost caste in Washington for criticizing the Administration's silver policies. There was even a self-appointed New Deal economist, Britain's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, prophet of coming U. S. booms...
...Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...