Word: evangelistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clarinet rode away from the melody. A little old Negro woman, her wrinkled neck twitching like a cock's comb, sprang into the air and screamed. All over "the auditorium black heads bobbed ecstatically as if mounted on pogo sticks. From the stage rose the voice of the evangelist: "Let me hear them screams, pilgrims! Let me hear...
...little eloquent evangelist, who produced big eloquent structures, Architect Cram lived scarcely more than bodily in the 20th Century. His intense spiritual life was in "the 13th, greatest of centuries," when the faith of a united Christendom bloomed in stone cathedrals from the hard soil of feudal Europe. More than any other one person Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival in U.S. architecture...
Critic Fausset's thesis is simple: if Whitman was a great poet, it was his business to fulfill the responsibilities of one. If he was the evangelist of democracy, it was his business to write a true, not a heretical, gospel. In Fausset's opinion, Whitman never quite succeeded in being either poet or evangelist. He wrote some great poetry and some amazingly energetic verse. But on the whole, he shrank even from such responsibilities as he was equipped to recognize. He perceived a great number of democratic half-truths. He lacked the intellectual equipment or spiritual stamina...
...rose Senator Olen C. Hull of Lawrence (pop. 400), a lay evangelist. He warned his colleagues that passage of the bill would mean "religious suicide for Mississippi"; that "the downfall of every nation so far has been due to two things-first, desecration of the Holy Sabbath, and second, loss of the virtue of its womanhood." Members spat rich brown streams of tobacco juice at the shiny brass spittoons. Senator Hull warmed up. He had been summoned, he said, "to come at once" to the home of a friend 80 miles away. He "raced" there in his automobile to discover...
...Bacon. At his desk in Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...