Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good sources in the State and Justice Departments, was close to the old Corcoran-Cohen team, has produced many an authentic news beat (the overage destroyers deal, the University of Louisiana graft scandals). But he is frequently guilty of colossal errors of fact, often reports cocktail gossip as gospel truth, sometimes writes colossal fictions. (In 1940, a few weeks before John L. Lewis went on the air for Wendell Willkie, the Merry-Go-Round solemnly reported, in quotations, a conversation in which Lewis and the President decided to be pals again...
...that was the point about the new Congress. The new members worked hard at their lessons. They studied the issues carefully, read through the piles of bills and committee reports, asked searching questions, refused to take a senior member's offhand opinion as gospel...
...Reformed Church's General Synod, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., told the State Department that "the duty has been laid upon us by Christ to preach the Gospel to all nations. . . . [To] restrain all but one faith from doing what under conscience is the duty of all faiths is a violation of religious liberty...
More than in peacetime flying, an old pilots' saw was still the gospel of the air: "There is no substitute for experience...
...Elmer Gantry, "a fine, manly New York clergyman," foremost exponent "of a streamlined gospel...