Word: prophetic
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...Ethiopian out of darkness. I sent the President 30 messages. He hath the program but he don't seem to understand it,& Gilbert F. Bonner, a big black Southern Negro kept insisting to White House attaches as he camped outside President Hoover's office door. A "prophet of doom," Bonner wore an old Army uniform (he used to be a quartermaster sergeant), with a blue cheesecloth turban on his head. Small gilt crucifixes dangled from every blouse pocket. White House guards let him sit day after day in the lobby, vainly waiting to carry his "message...
...Lord told the Prophet Ezekiel to ". . . take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard. . . ." (Ezekiel v, i.) But the Biblical record failed to specify 1) that Ezekiel had a beard, 2) that he complied with the Lord's command, 3) whether he stayed cleanshaven or let another beard grow. When Sculptor Lee Lawrie designed the eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless...
...burning wreckage frantic employes pulled Zlin's prophet, master and First Working Partner. He was carried to the morgue in the factory hospital. For almost an hour the production of shoes stopped, the Fordized conveyors halted. Then they began to move again. Thomas Bat'a would have wanted no interruption for his sake...
Sneered El Excelsior of Mexico City: "In one word, as if by witchcraft. . . . Governor Tejeda becomes as crafty a boss as ever was produced by the Asiatic continent . . . absolute sovereign over all property in Veracruz, a stupendous miracle which would have made Mahomet the prophet envious...
...away to an optimism which will deny the possibility of Britain descending to the status of a lesser power, nor does it inspire him with the sort of Anglophilism which says that the English gentleman is the highest example of human civilization. In all he is not a prophet; he has merely made an admirable study of the British national character and psychology, and has shown himself to be a perfect traveler, an amusing raconteur, and a sound and forceful critic...