Word: propheteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earliest recorded instance of the value of cross-examination is contained in the Bible itself. You may recall the story of Susanna and the elders. . . * As an illustration we need go no further." Governor Roosevelt: It is a very apt case. You are in the position of the Prophet Daniel. I will not say Mayor Walker is in the position of Susanna. Mayor Walker: I certainly feel like it. Observers at the hearing suspected that Counsel Curtin was building up a case, in the event of the Mayor's removal, with which to go into the Federal courts under...
...gesture of pushing as his shoulders twitched in the dance called the Lindy Hop. It was Architect Fuller, fifth generation in a line of Harvard men, onetime class drunkard, twice expelled from Harvard, greatnephew of Emerson's friend Margaret Fuller, Wartime U. S. Navy lieutenant, engineer, a prophet of civilization...
...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...