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...Veiled Prophet In St. Louis crowds stamped their feet to keep warm waiting for the 53rd appearance of the Veiled Prophet. Thoughtfully he emerged 15 min. ahead of time from the fastness of "Khorassan.'' a dingy car barn on Ranken Avenue. With him came forth 19 floats depicting scenes from the life of Washington, towed by caparisoned horses along the street car tracks...
Next night at the Coliseum the Prophet, heavily veiled as always, presided at the annual ball. Crowned Queen was debutante Myrtle McGrew Lambert. She is the daughter of Albert Bond Lambert, onetime president of Lambert Pharmacal Co. ("Listerine"). He gave Charles Augustus Lindbergh his first $1,000 toward financing his transatlantic flight, gave St. Louis the ground for its municipal airport, Lambert-St. Louis Field...
...claims to truth of science or of art, Herman Melville once exclaimed: "By the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the Hebrew story of Jonah; and vice versa . . . If I claim the demigod, then, why not the prophet...
...earliest recorded instance of the value of cross-examination is contained in the Bible itself. You may recall the story of Susanna and the elders. . . * As an illustration we need go no further." Governor Roosevelt: It is a very apt case. You are in the position of the Prophet Daniel. I will not say Mayor Walker is in the position of Susanna. Mayor Walker: I certainly feel like it. Observers at the hearing suspected that Counsel Curtin was building up a case, in the event of the Mayor's removal, with which to go into the Federal courts under...
...gesture of pushing as his shoulders twitched in the dance called the Lindy Hop. It was Architect Fuller, fifth generation in a line of Harvard men, onetime class drunkard, twice expelled from Harvard, greatnephew of Emerson's friend Margaret Fuller, Wartime U. S. Navy lieutenant, engineer, a prophet of civilization...