Word: newbolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell of visiting clergymen and their sermons: "The patience of a schoolboy congregation is often sorely tried. One winter three successive clergymen took as their theme the parable of the Prodigal Son. Again, three visiting clergymen in a row ended their sermons with a stereotyped quotation from Sir Henry Newbolt, beginning, 'There's a breathless hush in the close tonight,' and concluding dramatically, 'Play up! play up! and play the game! . . .' On one painful morning a clergyman of national reputation preached a sermon identical in text and argument with that used by an eminent divine...