Word: preach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faith. When the movies go into the pulpit they usually lack conviction. From screen pulpits around the country this picture will attempt to preach its sermon of love and regeneration in a Mission of the slums. Seeking the cold ice of logic, it attacks its prob-lem with snowballs dripping slush...
Archbishop Soderblom is to be the guest of the University for several days and will preach in Appleton Chapel at the Sunday morning service on November...
...bone dry." At any rate when a state enforcement law exists in Pennyslvania, his exposition of conditions there reflects at least as much upon himself as upon President Coolidge. By his speech he seems to have laid himself open to the counter attack of "Practice what you preach...
...Lloyd George said: " I shall be neither a missionary nor a bootlegger, I shall neither preach sound doctrine nor smuggle bad whisky." He said he was going to Canada to express Britain's great gratitude for her aid in the War. Referring to the sorry plight of the Allies in 1917 and the entry of the U. S. into the War, " L. G." said: " Just then that young Hercules of the West came striding along, fearlessly, dauntlessly, and took his stand here by the side of the Armies of France and of Great Britain. Do you know what that meant...
...speeches: "I pity the Socialists. . . . I have read all their books. I know all their arguments. . . . I do not regard them as rational beings. ... If the lesser and immediate demands of labor could not be obtained from society as it is, it would be mere dreaming to preach and pursue the will-o'-the-wisp, a new society constructed from rainbow materials...