Word: fosdickâ
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...economy. Sight-seeing became people-seeing. The world was micrographed. On Sunday morning Importance climbed a narrow road up the steep central hill toward church. It went to hear the League of Nations sermon preached by an American, whom a famed Jew, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, had described as "Fosdick???the least hated and best loved heretic that ever lived." That a heretic should also be the most widely acclaimed pulpit-orator of his generation was (to the Geneva cosmopolites) one of those magnificent Americanisms which added flavor to the most solemn occasion...
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