Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...negro to return to college should explain the reasons for their action, by which Harvard has kowtowed to intolerant Jimcrowism. Finally, Navy bigwigs should be taught that when this country, this college and the Navy itself declare their faith in democratic equality, they mean to practice what they preach. For it was not the students at Annapolis who wanted the negro to go. Indeed, they told the Harvard players exactly the contrary. Rather it is Admiral Willson and Commander Perry, director of Athletics at Annapolis, and the remaining officials down there, who had better start exhibiting the American way instead...
...Edinburgh, Dr. Niebuhr delighted his hearers by delivering his complicated lectures extempore, drew the largest crowds in Gifford history. Said one woman: "I dinna understand a word ye say when ye preach, but somehow I ken that ye're makin' God great." Before the lectures were finished, World War II broke out. Even that did not cut down the attendance. Intent on his exposition at one crowded lecture, Dr. Niebuhr suddenly noticed that his audience had grown restless. "Gracious, I'm losing their attention," he thought, "I'd better steam...
...wowed the public with the heroic scale of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The bigger these pictures have gotten, the simpler have been their basic sentiments. The vast Tibetan spaces of Lost Horizon enclosed the theme BE KIND (Capra's own description). Mr. Deeds went to town to preach LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN (ditto). Among the marbles of Washington, Mr. Smith found the meaning of LOVE YOUR COUNTRY...
...subordinate once told a rural school supervisor that Mr. Rockwell "wanted us to go out and preach the sharing of the wealth...
...wanted to be deceived. Although in his acceptance speech Wendell Willkie had warned that no man could foresee the future clearly enough to promise peace, and had promised to outdo Adolf Hitler in any contest Hitler chose ("Energy against energy, production against production, salesmanship against salesmanship . . .") he did not preach an active crusade against Hitler, whose morals he deplored. Although Franklin Roosevelt had spelled out the menace to the U. S. in appeasing Hitler, he did not point out how far aid to Britain might have to go. Voters who could look back without rancor could find one reason...