Word: gospeling
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...golf courses, country clubs, hotels, homes, public buildings. Payrolls of Coral Gables Corp. were $200,000 per week and the advertising and publicity departments were each spending $2,000,000 per year. Any visitor with the remotest claim to fame was wined, dined and dunned with the Coral Gables gospel. Even William Jennings Bryan was persuaded to lecture on Coral Gables' bright sun and blue waters. And in one twelve-month period Coral Gables Corp. sold no less than $98,000,000 worth of property. Much of it was never paid...
...Crawford declared she was healed of eye trouble, lung trouble, a deformity, and an internal ailment. She founded a mission in a Portland blacksmith shop, began preaching against divorce and remarriage. She firmly advocated tithing, explaining to her followers that the Gospel is against life insurance, labor unions, lodges, the cinema, bobbed hair, stylish garb and other extravagances. Thriving on tithes plus free-will offerings at meetings, the Apostolic Faith now has $500,000 worth of property, a printing plant, a Live Gospel Mission ("Brightest Spot in Portland"), others in Norway, Sweden, South Africa and Bowling Green, Ky. Treasurer...
...McIntyre of Gallipolis, Ohio is probably the most widely read columnist in the U.S. His "New York Day By Day," in which for 23 years he has maintained the attitude of an overgrown and somewhat elfin country boy viewing the Big City's glitter with vague mistrust, is gospel to countless millions of credulous readers in nearly every town big enough to have a daily newspaper. But of all the 400-odd places receiving "New York Day By Day," Manhattan shows least interest. Likewise, the vast army of O. O. McIntyre's admirers includes very few members...
...believe that prayer will cure anything, even a sliced artery (TIME, July 23) or a rattlesnake bite (TIME, Aug. 20). Last year Ernest Elmer Baker, 38, got the idea that it would cure Russian Godlessness. The Pentecostal saints, he told his friends, had called him to carry the gospel. In February 1934, Ernest Elmer Baker's father gave him $1.40 and he set out for Russia. His wife and 14-year-old son went to live with a son of hers by a previous marriage...
...died and won to give Italy a radiant victory in the World War, wrote on the wall of a house near the banks of the Piave River: Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. This motto, more than any other, is our gospel...