Word: prophetizer
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Especially effective was the scene representing the prophet in the whale's belly. The huge mammal immediately proceeds to talk into his own stomach and in a pedantic tone of voice offers poor Jonah the benefit of innumerable intellectual tidbits...
...Hotel Baal in Nineveh, where the Lady chairman of the Semiramis Club, a sort of women's Rotary, a part ably acted by Miss Evelyn Stern, speaking of the post-war generation of young people with their fondness for mixed Greek wines and Ethiopian music, calls upon the Prophet from his far-flung battle line to give them all his "message...
Best of all, however, is the contrast which the part of the travelling salesman, acted in a most lively manner by Paul Killiam, offers to the Prophet. It is, of course, the part of the prophet Jonah himself which is the fat part in this entertaining play and Mr. John Weld entered into it with a naturalness and seriousness that were arresting, though perhaps he was a little too mild and good-natured for his vehement outbursts against the ladies of Nineveh or his anger against God when God proved more merciful to Nineveh than...
Last week the Prophet, Seer & Revelator of the world's 746,384 Mormons observed his 80th birthday. Hale & happy for such tributes as having a whole issue of the Mormon Improvement Era devoted to his life and works, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints arrived in Chicago on Mormon business bent. The 2,000 Mormons who live in and around Chicago and Wisconsin were also happy. Heretofore shepherded by Mormon missionaries, they became full-fledged members of the Church last Sunday when President Grant organized their territory into Mormonism...
Sailing from Manhattan last week for a vacation in Ireland, James Aloysius Farley risked his shining reputation as a prophet with a new prediction. The man who was right about Election solemnly declared: "It is my firm belief that the country will soon have the most prosperous time in all its history. . . . This Christmas will be the best and most prosperous in the history of the nation. I am sure that we will see people spending more money than in any previous Administration...