Word: gospels
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Another man who may leave a similar mark is Henry J. Kaiser, the man who launched one of his Liberty ships in four days and 15 hours and, more important, preached as a practical businessman "full production for full employment." His gospel challenged U.S. industry to lead the post-war world out of depression...
Startled were Broadway and millions of theatergoers, to whom Brooks Atkinson's drama reviews have for 16 years been gospel. It was difficult for them to imagine Brooks Atkinson as a war correspondent at all. He wrote his quiet, austere prose in a leisurely fashion, always followed a set routine which he once described: "First, put the program on the desk so that the title of the play and the names of the actors can be accurately copied. Then lay out a box of matches, light a pipe, take a pad of yellow paper and a dozen sharply pointed...
...False Gospel...
...your article, "The Power of Prayer in Kentucky," issue of Oct. 26, p. 78, you missed a chance to point out the fact that the passage so literally interpreted by the snake-handlers is Mark 16:18, which is a part of the well-known "false" ending to the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 16 verses 9 to 20 in the King James version. Nobody who looks at the facts could come to the conclusion that Jesus actually spoke these words, and the evidence that he did not is of the best and most objective kind, manuscript evidence...
Horrible grimaces and irrepressible feet may yet take Negro Pianist Dorothy Donegan places where her ten amazing fingers would not get her so fast. Wrote Down Beat, the blase semimonthly gospel of some 47,000 U.S. jazz fans: "She is, to us, the ideal in piano stylings. . . . We beckon to Hazel Scott to learn how the classics are swung. We invite Bob Zurke, Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan, Billy Kyle, all of them, to see phenomenal piano work...