Word: prophetize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles, one Charles Y. Knight, an almost mythical personage, inventor of the sleeve-valve motor, now wealthy, retired and 56, might have beamed again last fortnight with the pleasure of the prophet honored anew in his own country. John North Willys (Willys-Knight, Willys-Overland) had just returned, with his wife and daughter Virginia, from two months in Europe, where as usual he had mixed business with pleasure. Debarked at Manhattan, he had said...
Inventor Knight, prophet outcast at home, went to England, where the Daimler company of Coventry, was "sold" on the new motor. This was in 1908. Since then the Knight motor has become prized equipment for the Mercedes in Germany, the Panhard, Peugeot and Voisin in France, the Minerva in Belgium, the Russell-Knight in Canada...
...Prophet.* The citizens of Mecca, about 610 A. D., were idly curious when Mohammed, a jovial but second-rate trader of their town, contracted the habit of repairing to a cave in the hills nearby, sometimes alone, sometimes with his elderly wife or a slave, to perform secret things for days at a time. Perhaps, it was thought, he was counterfeiting. But this Mohammed, a shambling wight of 40, was a standing, harmless joke. Epileptic as a boy, he had later acquitted himself with notable lack of distinction in the trading caravans. He was no fighter. A rich widow, years...
MOHAMMED-R. F. Dibble-Viking Press ($3). The ruses, power, loves, teachings of a flesh-and-blood prophet...
President Coolidge ought to be grateful, for the seeming warehouse is really a newspaper office, and the baldish prophet is no obscure, senile wiseacre; he is Arthur Brisbane, able journalist. A machine invented by Thomas Alva Edison listens attentively to Mr. Brisbane's remarks; a respectful secretary transcribes his master's voice into typewritten copy; and the New York American, the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the San Francisco Examiner and many another newspaper owned by Publisher Hearst, to say nothing of some 200 non-Hearst dailies and 800 country weeklies which buy syndicated Brisbane, all publish what Mr. Brisbane...