Word: gospeling
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...fame of the retiring Master of Leverett will not be as short-lived as his tenure. One of the most successful traditions fostered by Professor Murdock was the annual Christmas reading, which Professor Hoadley intends to perpetuate. The evening was invariably begun with an excerpt from the Gospel according to St. Luke, but before long "Ken" launched into long quotations from Dorothy Parker and Bob Benchley, whose works, along with those of P.G. Wodehouse, lined his library shelves...
Wesley also made the printing press an effective weapon in his holy wars. Calvinists, enraged at his teaching Free Grace instead of Predestination, answered him thus in The Gospel Magazine...
...conditioned limousine with a friend, a chauffeur, a maid, a bodyguard. Her agent announced: "It is not an elopement." ∙ ∙ Gilt-haired Evangelist A'imee Semple McPherson, thrice-married, twice-divorced, approved a new bylaw adopted by her International Church of the Four Square Gospel. It prohibits a divorced minister from remarrying. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Cinemactress Constance Binney, 40, revealed she had been secretly married for nearly a month to a 22-year-old flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. ∙ ∙ Philadelphia society's former Princess Ruth Pignatelli, fighting for a divorce from...
...gospel the priests heard was on the pro-labor extreme "liberal" side. The doctor who discussed socialized medicine was lukewarm in its support. The speakers included not only A.F. of L. and C.I.O. organizers, but also a representative of a local utility and an industrial engineer. And the young lawyer who debated unionism against a C.I.O. man one evening made such sharp points that several times the chairman felt he had to step in and give the laborite a helping hand. By & large, however, the spirit of the meeting was as far to the left as the thinking...
...length in 1902, Rilke got a light subsistence job as Auguste Rodin's secretary. Rodin hardly more than noticed him, but from Rodin Rilke learned the gospel of hard labor. Paris, too, exerted an essentially masculine influence, stony, harsh, forcing Rilke to a contemplation of that reality he so dreaded. Whenever he left Paris, he became the pet lamb of one great lady or another, his work sagged into mediocre translations and brilliant, sanctimonious letters. Not to a patron, but to his publisher Anton Kippenberg, Rilke owed the two most productive years of his life: the years in Paris...