Word: prophetizer
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Though she lost her point, Jeritza won San Francisco for her own. The audience jamming Civic Auditorium sat in rapt attention as they saw her transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan. Her Dance of the Seven Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come...
...long ago learned to lay great lengths of pipe overland to transport water, petroleum, natural gas, sewage. Georges Claude of France is the prophet and pioneer of laying great lengths of pipe on an ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet...
Nothing in Mr. Babbitt's course is so important as Mr. Babbitt himself. Although nominally a professor of French literature, he is really no, longer a teacher; he is the prophet of a philosophy. His philosophy, as nearly everybody knows, is called humanism. This creed has become widely popular lately; the front pages of the newspapers have advertised the worship of its more spectacular disciples. But Mr. Babbitt has his own peculiar brand of humanism, and his writings and lectures all declare its glory and publish its handiwork...
...advance, but many held that it would be the impetus which Business awaits. Especially encouraging was the strong bond market. From Massachusetts, where about a year ago was sounded the dismal warning which none heeded, last week came a bullish statement. Statistician Roger Ward Babson, 1929-5 most famed "Prophet of Doom," made his first modification of his very bearish stand of last year, his first general recommendation to buy stocks since 1924. Stocks suggested by the Babson Statistical Organization Service were divided into two groups. "Good yield" stocks were: National Dairy Products Corp., General Foods Corp., North American Aviation...
Long ago President Hoover and his Cabinet ceased optimistic predictions of an early return of prosperity. The President, after setting May for the end of the business slump, saw his forecasts go all awry. Even Secretary of Labor James John Davis, the most irrepressibly cheery prophet, has grown silent on the economic future. Democratic delay on the tariff bill was recurrently cited by Republicans as the reason for unsettled business. They prophesied a quick upturn as soon as that measure was out of the way. The new tariff became law June 17. But July, according fo figures given...