Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan met the Presbyterian League of Faith, militant Fundamentalist organization to which some 1,200 of the 10,000 U. S. Presbyterian ministers belong. Unabashed by the trouncing administered them at the last Presbyterian General Assembly (TIME, June 5), the Fundamentalists proclaimed they are holding their line, unanimously nominated as their candidate for moderator at next Assembly Rev. Dr. Harold S. Laird, 42, pastor of First & Central Presbyterian Church, Wilmington...
What manner of man is the U. S. preacher? He may be Liberal, Moderate or Fundamentalist, poet, teacher or mystic. He is less the scholar-theologian than his brothers in England and Scotland; more the pastor-executive-publicist. He is entertaining and vivacious, but restrained in comparison with the thunderers of half a century ago. He speaks over the radio. He publishes as many volumes of sermons in a year as were published in a decade prior to 1890. He is about 54 years old. "It is doubtful if there has been another period in American history so opulent...
...Warren Badenock Straton, son of the late Fundamentalist John Roach Straton, attended the Briarcliffe house-party, "gave a short testimony, never joined the Group...
...chance she went to France as a nurse. Meanwhile Hans Haaska, Missouri doctor's son, was finding his painful way through priggishness to virtue. In England he was doing well in biology when his sister's death called him home. There he married an older woman, narrow, Fundamentalist, and together they went to Africa to physic the heathen. But his marriage went to smash on the Rock of Ages. When he met a second-rate singer who flattered him, though a child could have told him not to take a chance, he did, with disastrous results. Disillusioned, middle...
...coming English novelists, Norah James is not quite up but she seems to be coming. Her Sleeveless Errand (1929), a potent presentation of justifiable suicide, was suppressed by the London police. Even fundamentalist parsons, however, should find nothing to cavil at, much to approve, in Jealousy...