Word: propheteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squinting skyward last week, Turks looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
SHERMAN: FIGHTING PROPHET-Lloyd Lewis-Harcourt, Brace...
Last week it was Jeritza's turn. She walked on to the Metropolitan stage and a great audience broke into terrific applause. She coaxed and beguiled the white-faced prophet in a voice expertly wanton. There was no scenery, no severed head on a platter but Jeritza sang-acted so vividly that people familiar with the Oscar Wilde story could easily imagine her crouching over the famed head, stroking its matted black hair, kissing the red lips...
...discovered he was also wearing and his happiness was complete. Browning, King and Co. was written in great letters on the lable. Just like the writing on the coat of many colors, he thought. He saw it all in terms of the old Bible stories. He was a prophet and the mantle had fallen upon him and he had come to Heaven in a chariot of fire. His heart grew glad within him and he wondered at the infinite goodness of the Lord who had brought such wonders to pass...
BERNARD SHAW. PLAYBOY AND PROPHET - Archibald Henderson - Appleton ($7.50). Complete and up-to-date, by the official Shavian biographer...