Word: pullerisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor of a magazine which should become one of Christendom's most influential is resourceful, go-getting Dr. Roy Lemon Smith, long the successful pastor of Los Angeles' big First Methodist Church, whose "Sentence Sermons" are syndicated in more than 100 newspapers. No pussyfooting puller of punches, Editor Smith's first issue addressed Methodist youth under the heading "Toasting Marshmallows While the World Burns." It suggested that "many church services are being defeated by dig-nity," denounced church boards that are more temporal than spiritual, asked whether Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka had forgotten his debt...
Besides printing every pronunciamento, bull and encyclical which the Pope may issue, Osservatore Romano's, editor, blond, stocky Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, has found occasion in the past to denounce athletics for women as a cause of sterility, condemn anti-Semitic feeling in Italy. No punch-puller is Editor Dalla Torre. More than once Osservatore Romano has dubbed Herr Hitler "Antichrist." Before World War II Osservatore Romano had a circulation of 40,000. A few copies went to Catholic editors in other parts of the world, most of the rest were sold on the newsstands of Rome...