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...write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers and the rank and file of our membership...
...ceptions "sensationalism run riot." But back of the torn paper and the screeching headlines lay a very sincere and very spontaneous out burst of popular emotion. There has been so much commercialism in everything of late - crimes of passion are accompanied by insurance policies and lithe-limbed athletes hold grandstand conferences. Here was one man who did some thing for motives other than there being "money in it," for it is hard ly sentimentalism to feel that Colonel Lindbergh did not cross the Atlantic with his mind focused on Mr. Orteig's $25,000. It was one instance...
Undergraduates and officers of the University may obtain free tickets for grandstand seats at the dedication exercises of the John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge at the H. A. A. and the office of the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration...
...pitch of vociferous enthusiasm, as these words of determined confidence rang out through the jammed room. Every inch of available floor space was covered by the surging flood of humanity which over-flowed onto chairs, tables, mantlepieces, and bookshelves. Windowsills were converted into benches and the piano into a grandstand, while one determined enthusiast was even found up the chimney...
...fusser, petter, necker, lizard, sheik, as you will). He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience. MacNooder's political finesse is his, refined and extended even unto sorority elections. His rostrum is at the mass meeting, in front of the grandstand, on the Charleston floor...