Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went when he landed, Big Bill Haywood was again a hero for a little while. They put him in charge of a mining enterprise at Kuznetsk, which he managed so badly that it failed. In Russia, Big Bill's vast radicalism seemed faintly conservative; he was a prophet no longer and he became slowly almost without honor. He lived in the Lux hotel with the rest of the important useless exiles from foreign countries; newspaper correspondents brought him U. S. papers or boxes of paprika which he liked and could not buy abroad...
...following program will be presented at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock: Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer Kol Nidert Bruch Violoncello Solo: Jacobus Langendoen Overture to "Baruffe Chiozotte" Sinigaglia Overture. "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn "Danse Macabre." Symphonte Poem Saint Saens "Italian." Rhapsody Casella Bacchanale. "Tannhauser" Wagner Second Hungarian Rhapsody List
...well-worn remark to the effect that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, has more than once gone the way of all good epigrams--to its refutation. And now, exception has once more been taken to it, for, in the current number of The Nineteenth Century and After, appears an article by P. S. Richards which extols, in no uncertain terms, Professor Irving Babbitt as among the foremost, if not the most eminent, of contemporary constructive critics...
...sentimentalist who loves anything tinged with tradition and the unreasoning individual who sometimes values meaninglessness for its own sake may shed a silent tear over 30 and 32, no longer to be counted among the progeny of the History Department. But the true prophet of progress cannot but hail the advent of efficiency in a field where it has been sadly wanting...
Master Nicolaus, the sculptor of this announcement, who according to documentary evidence was called in 1467 from Strassburg to Vienna in order to execute. The Emperor's Tomb at St. Stephen's Cathedral, is probably identical with Nicolaus von Leyden, the sculptor of the two remarkable busts of a Prophet and a Sibyl in the former Chancellery at Strassburg, casts of which are in the Germanic Museum...