Word: prophetizer
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Last week it was Jeritza's turn. She walked on to the Metropolitan stage and a great audience broke into terrific applause. She coaxed and beguiled the white-faced prophet in a voice expertly wanton. There was no scenery, no severed head on a platter but Jeritza sang-acted so vividly that people familiar with the Oscar Wilde story could easily imagine her crouching over the famed head, stroking its matted black hair, kissing the red lips...
...discovered he was also wearing and his happiness was complete. Browning, King and Co. was written in great letters on the lable. Just like the writing on the coat of many colors, he thought. He saw it all in terms of the old Bible stories. He was a prophet and the mantle had fallen upon him and he had come to Heaven in a chariot of fire. His heart grew glad within him and he wondered at the infinite goodness of the Lord who had brought such wonders to pass...
BERNARD SHAW. PLAYBOY AND PROPHET - Archibald Henderson - Appleton ($7.50). Complete and up-to-date, by the official Shavian biographer...
...countless suns rise slowly out of the district men call Back Bay. He has even, in the rush of his youth sat through one entire Vincent Show--later, in the dignity of his age, he departed he, half born. All this he has done, and may say with the Prophet, "Lord, I have seen...
Queen Myrtle, according to Veiled Prophet tradition (shockingly violated recently), may not marry until she has relinquished her crown to her successor next year. But while all might gaze at the Queen, the veil of the Prophet is never lifted, even the Press conspiring to keep his name a dreadful secret...