Word: propheteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, fifth Baron Headley, when in 1913 he renounced Christianity to embrace the Moslem faith. Lord Headley became president of the British Muslim Society, pre-eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that...
...sole significance is that it definitely establishes Actor Winninger, with Victor Moore, George Arliss and Wallace Beery, as another contender for the position of the late Will Rogers in the affection of U. S. cinemaddicts. Typical shot: Cappy delivering his favorite oath, "By the holy pink-toed prophet," when he learns that, despite his instructions to the contrary, Bill and Margaret have eloped to China...
...Porter Ayres saw no signs that General Dawes was right. But less than two weeks later (TIME, July 22, 1935) steel ingot production suddenly began the rise which has been virtually continuous ever since. By this modest but clean-cut feat Banker Dawes gained a reputation as a Recovery Prophet.* Starting up from his laurels last week, "Charlie"' Dawes published a 45-page book, How Long Prosperity?, in which he risked another and equally definite prediction. His answer to his own question: barring currency inflation or war, a "high degree" of prosperity will continue until the autumn...
...General Farley has given the Senate, out of the kindness of his patronizing heart, the privilege of talking as long as it wants, but when the votes are mustered the reorganization will go through. It is impossible to contest the judgment of so clairvoyant a political prophet. The reorganization probably will go through. But meanwhile it is significant that there are liberals left like Mr. Burlingham who are willing to get up and contest the proposal to do away with the independent judiciary, a proposal which after all is the most reactionary idea that has yet sprung from the fertile...
...book's frontispiece presents Angler Heilner's sporting credentials: a picture of himself and Zane Grey taken at Long Key, Fla. in 1916. If Mr. Grey, 62, is the senior prophet of ocean game fishing in America, certainly Van Campen Heilner, 37, is its junior dean. He is at dutiful pains throughout his easy-going pages to give credit where due to the men who have made game fishing into a well-defined national sport. Examples: To oldtime Charley Thompson, credit for guiding the first party to take a sailfish on rod & reel, in 1901, after...