Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disguised as a fortune teller of Damasciis (see p. 45). Not to be confused with famed Bartab Koran, a crystal gazer, who claims' credit for forecasting President Hoover's election in 19-28, the Japanese earthquake, the Manchurian crisis. Attracting enormous crowds to vaudeville, Bartab Koran has predicted that this year Newton Diehl Baker would be nominated by the Democrats, that the Democrats will carry all before them until Election Day when Herbert Hoover will be reelected. Calling at the White House, he was photographed with the President to whom he gave a gold idol from Tibet...
...transatlantic liner by hooting low ballads in the ship's bar and chuckling at their mal de mer. It would be absurd to think that Edward R. Tinker would endanger the prestige of the Chase National Bank by wearing the false whiskers of a Damascus fortune teller, calling his wife Momma or cracking such a joke as "it won't be long now." Edward R. Tinker would not allow a treacherous female adventurer to pat his shoulder. Nor would he (even to strengthen the financial structure of Fox Film Corp.) impersonate a radio voice to astonish a sandpile...
...police to lead raids or a fire chief to rush to fires." New appointee is Kern Dodge, 51, socialite, consulting engineer. Never a politician, Director Dodge has been an executive council member of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. His father James -whom Mark Twain called "the greatest story teller in America"-founded and left his son a large interest in Link-Belt Co. Longtime friend of Mayor-elect Moore, Director Dodge is extremely air-minded. He flew in one of the Wright Brothers' planes in 1912. He. his son and his daughter all hold commercial pilot licenses...
...past four years in the hilly little town of Marion (pop.: 4,156) in south-west Virginia, shaggy Sherwood Anderson, author of A Story Teller's Story, Many Marriages, The Triumph of the Egg, has been publishing two thriving weekly papers, the Marion Democrat and the Smyth County News (Republican). Editor and business manager of the papers has been Author Anderson's redhaired, 24-year-old son Robert Lane ("Bob") Anderson. Last week, a fortnight after his marriage to Mary Leigh Chryst, an English instructor in Marion Junior College, Son Robert bought control of the weeklies from Father...
...burning him at the stake like Indians," because of Mr. Cooper. He did much else besides; wrote several excellent sea stories, a naval history of the United States, and the "Wept of Wish ten Wish" which appears to be a bit whimsy. He was the first great American story teller who set the stage, most regrettably, for a series of other yarn spinners, whose only qualifications were that they had carefully read Cooper. Professor Matthiessen will enlarge upon all this today in Harvard 6 at 10 o'clock...