Word: preach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drop in at Appleton Chapel on any Sunday morning when Dean Brown of Yale, or Harry Emerson Fosdick is going to preach you will find it crowded with students, every seat taken and throngs of boys standing up to listen. The boys are there because they want to be, for there is no compulsion in the matter of attendance...
...Press proclaimed that it was only Mayor Nelson's "customary courage" that had mada him think he could edit a newspaper. "Will his customary courage," wondered readers, "indue? him to fiddle with the St. Paul's orchestra, to pitch for the St. Paul baseball nine, to preach in St. Paul's pulpits, to teach in the St. Paul High School, to drive the St. Paul trolley...
...seems to me that you do not practice what you preach, for on Page 5 of the same issue I notice you speak of William W. Russell, Jerry Shea, Edwin Denby, William V. Hodges and C. Bascom Slemp without using any other title and do not prefix "Mr." to their names. So, you lay yourself liable to the imputation of not using the "Mr." in speaking of other persons...
...production is a risk because it is old fashioned. It is a leisurely piece with a purpose. Brieux, French author of the original, is inclined to propaganda (Damaged Goods and The Red Robe). Modern plays have hurried things up be hind the footlights. If they have a sermon to preach they take care to cast it in intensive words and action. Accused is largely argument, brilliant and searching argument to be sure, but developed in long paragraphs...
...speech of mine in the British Parliament quoted by Secretary Kellogg has been falsely reported. Mr. Kellogg is deceiving the American public. He claims I would preach sedition in America...