Word: propheteers
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...moved by the altruistic impulses hitherto ascribed, but was avoiding another dud on the Holy Cross game (Dr. Huey picked Harvard to win easily last year) and, furthermore, didn't know a polo mallet from a wicker-basket. He concluded his remarks with the slur that the prophet had been out of practice, insofar as the sons of Nassau were concerned, for the past five years, and didn't know they even had a polo team...
...biographies are as searching as this one; few biographers would have gone on such a search. John Middleton Murry and the late David Herbert Lawrence were once friends; now Murry has written a book to tell the world why Lawrence was a false prophet. His half-apologetic epilog is addressed to the dead man: "The evil that you did, is done; and it is evil. You muddied the spring of living water that flowed in you more richly than in any man of your time. . . . You bewildered men who might have learned from you. betrayed men who would have followed...
Died. Kahlil Gibran, 47, Syrian philosopher, artist, poet (The Prophet, The Earth God; Jesus, the Son of Man); of cancer of the liver; in Manhattan...
...hardworking factotum. He lives in Princeton, N. J. with his wife Julie Cuyler Matthews and sons T. S. Jr. and John. Tennis is his game, A. E. Housman his poet, honesty in letters his main ambition. His first novel (145 pp.) is dedicated to Alfred Richard Orage, prophet in the U. S. of "The Harmonious Development...
...morning editions that old Joseph Pulitzer's torch was carried most high and brightly until his death in 1911 and thereafter. And it was to the man in charge of that editorial page that other U. S. newspapermen, insofar as they regarded the World as the Law & the Prophets, paid homage as to their Moses, their prophet of Liberalism. This week a great dinner was given by the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan for 41-year-old Walter Lippmann, the past seven years the World's chief editorial writer. He announced as the subject of his address: "Journalism...