Word: propheteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week ago the Harvard correspondent of a Boston newspaper predicted that the reticence of F. D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37, however admirable, might prove disastrous. The prophet proved a very oracle, for Boston's press, from the saffron Post and Globe to the blue-nosed Transcript, have exhibited a record case of jaundice in their deliberate attempts to set the stage for a good, gaudy, front page streamer exploitation...
...Cassandra, but an increasingly chatty one, Prophet Wells fills 431 pages with his latest, most garrulous forecast...
...years to save. Recouping in part by sales of 'his book Caught Short, he described himself as ''not in the market but under it.'' Eddie Cantor's steepest losses were in Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., that fabulous creation of Waddill Catchings, loudest prophet of the New Era. Nathan S. Jonas, ousted head of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and Eddie Cantor's friend, neighbor and financial mentor, persuaded him to buy a huge block of Goldman, Sachs and put it away. For the next three years Funnyman Cantor devoted his life...
...that Whittier was also a "mil itant and radical agitator who was charged on a number of occasions with blasphemy and sedition. . . . This favorite poet of juvenile readers and composer of hymns for the elderly was for the greater and more important period of his poetic life a stormy prophet...
Bernard Mannes Baruch sailed for France to "boil some of the wickedness out of me" at Vichy. Said he: "I'm not going to London because if I did some one would twist it around and call me a delegate, a prophet or something." Asked what he thought of the phrase "Assistant President" applied to himself, he replied: "____ ____.* Now let's talk of something else." A reporter asked him about his reputation as an eater of okra. "Ah, okra!" said Statesman Baruch. "Okra is never good unless it breaks like a cracker...