Word: propheteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion was made by one of the many who are anxious to see the sage of the age back at his job that Connie. Mack has kidnapped the famous prophet in an attempt to remove the element of chance from the next World Series. It will be remembered by followers of sport that Dr. Huey's reputation did not really become worldwide until the last World Series, when his remarkably accurate predictions finally won over the most stubborn doubters of his prowess. Investigation brought quick death, however, to the kidnapping story...
...often that members of the College have the opportunity to hear the illustrious Law School head, whose fiery personality is as noted as his versatile, ability, which should expand now that he has an office large enough to hold him. The Vagabond would be surprised if the Nebraska prophet did not prove an interesting speaker...
Though she lost her point, Jeritza won San Francisco for her own. The audience jamming Civic Auditorium sat in rapt attention as they saw her transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan. Her Dance of the Seven Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come...
...long ago learned to lay great lengths of pipe overland to transport water, petroleum, natural gas, sewage. Georges Claude of France is the prophet and pioneer of laying great lengths of pipe on an ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet...
Nothing in Mr. Babbitt's course is so important as Mr. Babbitt himself. Although nominally a professor of French literature, he is really no, longer a teacher; he is the prophet of a philosophy. His philosophy, as nearly everybody knows, is called humanism. This creed has become widely popular lately; the front pages of the newspapers have advertised the worship of its more spectacular disciples. But Mr. Babbitt has his own peculiar brand of humanism, and his writings and lectures all declare its glory and publish its handiwork...