Word: sage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sages. Many were the self-proclaimed sages who declared they had predicted the break. But outstanding Wise Man was Roger W. Babson who, after a record of much unsuccessful seering, publicly forecast the decline, although instead of his break of "60-80 points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to Prof. Irving Fisher's index of 50 most active industrials). Quickly capitalized was Seer Babson's accuracy, as were Wag Cantor's losses. Newsstands displayed for $3 a pamphlet giving Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would...
Professional Texan, old-style, is Owen P. White, storyteller. Professional Texan, new style, is Gene Howe, editor of the Amarillo Globe-News, son of old-time Ed Howe, "Sage of Potato Hill" (Atchison, Kan.). Story-teller White lately helped Collier's magazine into a million-dollar libel suit by flaying, old-style, the political monkey-business of Rentfro Banton Creager and other Texas Republicans in Hidalgo County (TIME, Sept. 16). Editor Howe has obtained publicity for his little cow-&-gas town of Amarillo by flaying, new style, such national figures as Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, April...
...Flung Huey, prognosticator par excellence, has been, located again, according to latest reports. The famous Oriental sage quietly slipped out of town last Friday leaving his public in the lurch and since his disappearance many rumors as to his whereabouts have reached Cambridge. One report was that he was seen sneaking around Wall Street late Friday night. Another, from Chicago, was to the effect that he was seen on the corner of 39th and Halstead, straightening out matters with disappointed Windy City fans who are still grumbling about the Cubs' defeat...
...rumor which was being circuited by a famous baseball betting ring around the Stadium after Saturday's game to the effect the Dr. Huey, CRIMSON prognosticator, had been kidnapped, is entirely unfounded. The oriental sage was discovered in the statement of a Mt. Auburn St. laundry establishment after an anxious night on the part of the various search parties which were immediately formed when the rumor commenced its rapid spread Saturday evening. the doctor's condition was excellent and he seemed inclined to talk about the impending World's Series which starts in Chicago tomorrow. He intimated that...
Although the oriental sage hopes his new followers will not risk all their money so early in the season on his predictions for Saturday's games, like the good sport that he is, he submitted the following scores for the day's gridiron battles to newspaper correspondents here today: Boston College 27 Catholic U. 6 Dartmouth 39 Norwich 0 Holy Cross 32 St. John's 0 Brown 20 Springfield 0 West Point 33 Boston U. 7 New Hampshire 13 Colby 0 Michigan 27 Mt. Union 0 Penn 39 F. & M 0 Columbia 27 Middlebury 0 Cornell 21 Clarkeson...