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Word: propheteer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countless suns rise slowly out of the district men call Back Bay. He has even, in the rush of his youth sat through one entire Vincent Show--later, in the dignity of his age, he departed he, half born. All this he has done, and may say with the Prophet, "Lord, I have seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/25/1932 | See Source »

...Veiled Prophet In St. Louis crowds stamped their feet to keep warm waiting for the 53rd appearance of the Veiled Prophet. Thoughtfully he emerged 15 min. ahead of time from the fastness of "Khorassan.'' a dingy car barn on Ranken Avenue. With him came forth 19 floats depicting scenes from the life of Washington, towed by caparisoned horses along the street car tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prophet, King, Queens | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Next night at the Coliseum the Prophet, heavily veiled as always, presided at the annual ball. Crowned Queen was debutante Myrtle McGrew Lambert. She is the daughter of Albert Bond Lambert, onetime president of Lambert Pharmacal Co. ("Listerine"). He gave Charles Augustus Lindbergh his first $1,000 toward financing his transatlantic flight, gave St. Louis the ground for its municipal airport, Lambert-St. Louis Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prophet, King, Queens | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Queen Myrtle, according to Veiled Prophet tradition (shockingly violated recently), may not marry until she has relinquished her crown to her successor next year. But while all might gaze at the Queen, the veil of the Prophet is never lifted, even the Press conspiring to keep his name a dreadful secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prophet, King, Queens | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...claims to truth of science or of art, Herman Melville once exclaimed: "By the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the Hebrew story of Jonah; and vice versa . . . If I claim the demigod, then, why not the prophet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEMIGOD AND THE PROPHET | 10/6/1932 | See Source »

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