Word: prophetizer
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...years to save. Recouping in part by sales of 'his book Caught Short, he described himself as ''not in the market but under it.'' Eddie Cantor's steepest losses were in Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., that fabulous creation of Waddill Catchings, loudest prophet of the New Era. Nathan S. Jonas, ousted head of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and Eddie Cantor's friend, neighbor and financial mentor, persuaded him to buy a huge block of Goldman, Sachs and put it away. For the next three years Funnyman Cantor devoted his life...
...that Whittier was also a "mil itant and radical agitator who was charged on a number of occasions with blasphemy and sedition. . . . This favorite poet of juvenile readers and composer of hymns for the elderly was for the greater and more important period of his poetic life a stormy prophet...
Bernard Mannes Baruch sailed for France to "boil some of the wickedness out of me" at Vichy. Said he: "I'm not going to London because if I did some one would twist it around and call me a delegate, a prophet or something." Asked what he thought of the phrase "Assistant President" applied to himself, he replied: "____ ____.* Now let's talk of something else." A reporter asked him about his reputation as an eater of okra. "Ah, okra!" said Statesman Baruch. "Okra is never good unless it breaks like a cracker...
...Though he lived on a farm, his frigid mother for a long time succeeded in keeping him ignorant of the simplest biological facts. Vridar took to reading as an escape; much poring over the Bible helped convince him that he had seen a vision, that he would be a prophet...
...after Sherman burned it, he went to the University of Georgia, was admitted to the bar despite his refusal to study criminal law, took on Southern Railway as a client. In 1897 he married Gussie Grady, daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, prophet of the "New South," burier of the bloody shirt. One day ten years ago "Gene" Black, noticing that banks closed in midafternoon, decided banking was easier than the law. Shortly thereafter he accepted the presidency of Atlanta Trust Co., discovered his mistake. In 1928 he was chosen Governor...