Word: prophetize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general and Christianity in particular than that of the student. No small proportion of the faculty of Harvard lectures in Appleton Chapel, and undoubtedly there is a greater proportion of the faculty in attendance at the nine o'clock service than of the student body. Such a "pallid prophet" as Mr. Biederwolf mentions gets the least sympathetic audience among college minds...
...writing from his home town-"A prophet is not without honor, etc." Not so, Senator Willis as a student in the University here had the love and respect of his teachers and all who knew him best. His unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy was recognized by the faculty and students as nothing short of remarkable. . . . Willis advanced by leaps and bounds in college; and while yet in knee pants, so to speak, became a teacher and professor of law. His neighbors sent him to the legislature of his own state, then later to the lower house of Congress...
...mutiny, disobedience of orders, causing undue disturbance. President Polk canceled the punishment, allowed Frémont to remain in the Army. But Frémont resigned, insisting on his complete innocence. Despite its verdict, the court-martial made Frémont the hero of the North and the prophet of expansion...
...times of the year; new confirmation, however, of this result appears in one of the several guidebooks to the city of Boston, which states that the daily chapel attendance, in the period before examinations, increases three or four hundred per cent. Here is matter alike for the preacher, the prophet, and the psychologist. The daily chapel attendance at Appleton is usually neither so large nor so small as to cause exceptional comment; that in periods of stress and strain it increases to such an extent is noteworthy...
Martinelli (as the prophet whose fanatical followers crown him a Dutch Rex in 16th Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...