Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigner had ever been surer that he was right, that his cause just. Wendell Willkie believed in his crusade with such patent sincerity that even the most partisan hearer took away some belief in him-as a man, if not as a candidate. And those who got the gospel were slightly dippy, like fresh religious converts so full of doctrine that they need not eat, drink or sleep...
...save the New Deal farm program-which he supports-from "its enemies in a Republican-dominated Congress." In Gallup, N. M., where he made parts of his speech in Spanish, he declared. "The two Americas must become one America," then moved on to California to spread the New Deal gospel in the same Hollywood Bowl where Willkie had attacked...
...Gospel-minded localry call the Pennsylvania Turnpike "the glory road." For 160 miles between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh it stabs through the Appalachians, piercing ridge after ridge in a series of spectacular tunnels. These seven tunnels, part of Andrew Carnegie's half-built South Penn Railroad, were just what the engineer ordered...
...outcasts have professed Christianity at the rate of 10,000 a year, as fast as the clergy could instruct them. Most of the money for this and other missionary work in India comes from the great British missionary boards-one of which, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, sent out such famed 18th-Century missionaries to the U. S. as Methodist John Wesley, Episcopalian John Talbot. Now that Britain has had to cut her missionary giving, U. S. Episcopalians are rallying to help Bishop Azariah and other Anglican missionaries carry...
...Novelty Dance, Country Dance, Folk Songs and Race" offered I Don't Want No Skinny Woman and Thousand Woman Blues by Blind Boy Fuller; Down and Lost in Mind and Messed Up in Love by Big Bill; Shady Green Pastures and Walk Around by the Wright Brothers Gospel Singers; I'm Tired of Mountain Women by Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan; many & many another. On these lists, collectors of Americana might find some rewarding items; jazz addicts would be overpowered by the prevailing corny fla vor. But Decca and Columbia would no more scrap their hillbilly catalogues than...