Word: propheteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Curley was on the stand as the New Haven prophet lashed out at political interference in one of the most energetic attacks since last year's passage of Massachusetts' Oath...
...trusting to private polls, it had sent a postcard questionnaire to 280,000 Maine voters, almost every one in the State. Returns had shown every Republican candidate running from 3-10-2 to 3-to-1 ahead of his Democratic opponent. Chairman Hamilton risked his prophet's reputation last week by asserting flatly that Maine would go down the Republican line by 50,000 to 100,000 votes...
...mean. You hear a lot of noise and see a lot of people do this and that and t'other things, but you have to wait for the newspapers from home to find out what really took place. There is therefore no use my trying to play the prophet, but I am under the impression that we are living in an age when Niotzsche's far-famed "revaluation of all values" is rapidly becoming a concrete fact...
Publisher William Randolph ("Buy American") Hearst sailed for Europe on the Italian liner Rex. With him he took a party of 16, including his son George, his dachshund Helena. Cinemactress Marion Davies. Boomed Publisher Hearst: "Landon will be overwhelmingly elected, and I'll stake my reputation as a prophet...
Polygamy-or, as the Mormons delicately called it, plural marriage-was not et an acknowledged Mormon practice. Mormon communities in the East and Midwest were surrounded by citizens who frowned on such Old Testament goings-on. But Prophet Joseph Smith had already secretly taken the step, initiated a chosen few into the same fellowship. Rich, a sobersided, promising and healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four...