Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definitely accept your challenge, and will certainly meet you, God willing, face to face. . . . The place where this is done is quite immaterial, as it is vindication before the whole nation that you need and not the opportunity to establish an alibi merely before the Calvary congregation...
...powers that be (the Constitution of the United States) are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.' (Romans...
...game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected the Friar of charlatanism, perhaps because he tried to rationalize the colorful sermons that so inspired a people who felt, but understood nothing...
...first act discovers Elmer Gantry, newly ordained and already eloquent in the jargon of eternal love and mortal lust, laying siege to little Lulu Bains, daughter of a deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...
Before the premiere, there was some feeling that the play would be offensive to Manhattan God-fearers; disputes arose in matter of how much its bitterness should be quieted to avoid the censor. It was not toned down much. A Cross was visible in lecherous episodes and Sharon's trumpets had jazz-mutes in them. Ructions among the producers led to postponements and the retirement of William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor...