Word: propheteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston has maintained through the years the reputation of the purest city of its size in the Republic. Many years ago Mr. H. L. Mencken, then enjoying a prophet's repute, found his "American Mercury" suppressed because of an article which offended the tender nostrils of the Hub. A little later, Mr. Eugene O'Neill, the American dramatic laureate, found his "Strange Interlude" banned to the purlieus of Quincy because the Back Bay would have no dealings with incest. And within the memory of the current college generation of the Morals Squad of the peerless. Boston Constabulary found it necessary...
...city's favorite after-dinner speaker. There with solemn face he will tell innumerable stories, never repeating himself, about how he is held down by his wife "Gussie,"?daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, burier of the bloody shirt, prophet of the "New South." There his friends will again remind him that he looks like Andy Gump; there he will play golf (very creditably) with Bobby Jones. There he will again make quips like the one made in the showers after a disastrous round: "Well, there is one thing certain...
...Angeles. Seattle had him for a while, and other towns in the Northwest. Four years ago he turned up in Oroville, Calif., an old mining town, a little whiter, a little scrawnier and no longer plain John Cudney. He was now Brother Isaiah, 88th & last incarnation of the prophet Isaiah. On a rocky hillside he built a great ramshackle temple for his collection of handkerchiefs, canes and crutches, a colony of tents for 40-odd followers whom he called "Immortals." "I shall live forever," he told them, "and so shall you if you obey my teachings...
...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Minuet, for String Orchestra Bolzoni *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *"The Damnation of Faust," Excerpts Berlioz Minuet of the Will-o'-the-Wisps. Dance of the Sylphs Hungarian March (Rakoczy) *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas
...President of the U. S. has ever had greater political power of tongue than Franklin D. Roosevelt. When he has spoken the country has arisen and followed him as a prophet. His unique power to explain simply and convincingly, to gain acceptance for ideas, has been his most powerful political tool. Last week in Washington his political advisers were urging that it was time for him again to use that tool, to bring 122,000,000 people once more enthusiastically to their feet, to cheer them, convince them again of the merit of his aims, and win back the support...