Word: mcphersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall weep and cameras shall click, for Christianity in the person of Uldine Utley is coming to the United States Fleet. When the sinning tar cries out "What shall I do to be saved"? his prophet will reply in soft feminine tones, histrionically imitative of the sensuous Semple McPherson and-of Sharon Falconer...
...nurses after a surgical operation, where they are told to rejoice and to go to work winning new souls. For 50 years Gypsy Smith has opposed the snow-white pulpits and the gaudy theatrical devices of such sensationalists as Rev. William A. Sunday and Rev. Aimee Semple McPherson. "I am alone," he once said. "It is just Jesus and I. I have no singer, no press agent, no personal worker and no chorus leader. . . . Jesus Christ was the greatest gentleman the world ever knew, and He was an evangelist." Nevertheless, the press last week did not neglect to report that...
...then I heard Aimee Semple McPherson preach the true gospel...
...said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...
Upper berths, speeches, meals ordered on the dining ear with the confidence of a vaudeville trouper, oratory, ecstasies of religious passion, testimonials, quick little dancing steps, trips to foreign lands, Cuba, Milwaukee, Youngstown, dolls, John Roach Straton, Fresno, Aimee McPherson, cinema shows, school, tutor, lollypops,-God, salva- tions. Dr. Cadman...