Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday, the President observed Mother's Day by sending a basket of red roses and snapdragons from the White House gardens to Washington's First Baptist Church, where they were placed on the pulpit in memory of his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, who died last year...
Rector Melish stoutly defended his son for "doing the work which the rector himself would have done, had he been 20 years younger." He added: "A free pulpit that utters things that everyone accepts is an absurdity." Father & son issued a joint statement pointing out that an Episcopal minister "is not the employee of the vestry or of a board of trustees. Nor does he speak for the people of his parish in the sense that he must conform to the sentiments of the majority ... To say that he may speak his mind fully in the pulpit, but to deny...
...Vanguardia and brother of Communist Chief Rodolfo Ghioldi, was making a strong bid for a seat as deputy from Buenos Aires. That would give him official immunity and possible relief from the police, who had dogged him ever since the 1943 revolution. It would also assure him a big pulpit for his trenchant criticism...
Shaw's first glee club was at California's Pomona College, where he was studying to follow his father into the pulpit. To earn his way, he wrapped bread in a bakery and did some preaching on the side. When Fred Waring filmed Varsity Show on the Pomona campus, Shaw's glee club got a bit part-and Shaw got a job tuning up lush arrangements of Moonlight on the Campus and Battle Hymn of the Republic for Waring in New York. On the side, he trained a glee club for Broadway's Billy Rose...
...good usage." The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used in one way in formal writing, in another way in pulpit oratory ... in the courtroom ... in private conversation . . in the ballpark [and] the public forum . . . The students need to learn the appropriate word in the appropriate level of usage...