Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cotton Mather, great Puritan preacher and educator, hated witches and had 15 children. A Florida descendant of his, also named Cotton Mather, who hates taxes and has 15 chain stores, last week learned that taxes, unlike witches, cannot be burned at the stake...
...time, their substitute is alcohol. ("What is said about alcohol." begins a prologue, "comes mostly from people who stand in a Platonic relationship to narcotics.") As they pour out their bawdy yarns, their pasts of incest, arson, rape, miscellaneous sadism, the reader grudgingly admits a growing sympathy for the preacher. No scape goat ever had such a gang so unremittingly against...
Britain and France, lawful democracies, applauded Mr. Hull's words, Autarchic Germany snorted "moral preacher." Autarchic Italy gave him the silent treatment. Autarchic Japan hissed: "Mr. Hull is an idealist." But within 48 hours reactions to Mr. Hull were overshadowed by reactions to President Roosevelt...
...There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth,' " quoted the preacher...
...Madam," said the preacher, a man of faith, "teeth will be furnished...