Word: propheteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belong to the decade, perhaps to the century, not just to one more year. Moreover, political landslides however great are not compassed in the U. S. by just one personality and to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt because the U. S. electorate did would be a gross injustice to his prophet and political teammate, James Aloysius Farley...
...SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE- John Langdon-Davies - Dodd, Mead ($3). A prophet with a scientific back-ground and liberal convictions. John Langdon-Davies (Man and His Universe) sees a confused future in which Japan and Germany fight Russia (but not in the next three years), the U. S. adopts fascism, Britain remains democratic. He sees "one race in the world, with a pale, coffee-coloured skin, mongoloid eyes, rather shorter than the average Englishman of today...
Especially effective was the scene representing the prophet in the whale's belly. The huge mammal immediately proceeds to talk into his own stomach and in a pedantic tone of voice offers poor Jonah the benefit of innumerable intellectual tidbits...
...Hotel Baal in Nineveh, where the Lady chairman of the Semiramis Club, a sort of women's Rotary, a part ably acted by Miss Evelyn Stern, speaking of the post-war generation of young people with their fondness for mixed Greek wines and Ethiopian music, calls upon the Prophet from his far-flung battle line to give them all his "message...
Best of all, however, is the contrast which the part of the travelling salesman, acted in a most lively manner by Paul Killiam, offers to the Prophet. It is, of course, the part of the prophet Jonah himself which is the fat part in this entertaining play and Mr. John Weld entered into it with a naturalness and seriousness that were arresting, though perhaps he was a little too mild and good-natured for his vehement outbursts against the ladies of Nineveh or his anger against God when God proved more merciful to Nineveh than...