Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interior, according to bills and contemporary writers was quite handsome, with carved oak pews or stalls running along the sides of the building in the English Collegiate manner. At the East end was the President's seat with desk or pulpit. On this, placed on a rich piece of "China Carpet," was the folio bible given by Andrew Oliver, class of 1724 and later Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which...
From all over Britain they came, dealers, collectors, scientists, tweedy oölogists, pale studious curates. On the auctioneer's pulpit were bids from all over the world, for here was an occasion that might not come again in a lifetime. Six Great Auk eggs, all wrapped in cotton wool and lying in little boxes, and two stuffed Great Auk skins went on sale last week in Stevens auction rooms in London. They fetched a total...
...fact he was nowhere in his house. Slyly he had skipped through a back door and escaped the police cordon in a car bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit. Few paid attention to what he actually said. The purport of the sermon was clear enough, a protest against government interference in religion. One phrase stuck. "Our church has been violated!" cried Bishop Hans Meisser...
...sermon interrupted by shouts, shrieks, coarse language. In the church, the Jarvis Street Baptists craned their necks, gasped. Past dumbfounded ushers and straight down the aisle marched a woman and a young man. They both behaved as if they were drunk. Right in front of Dr. Shield's pulpit, while he glowered speechless, the pair pushed aside indignant worshippers, began heckling the preacher. Cried he: "Get out! Get out! Leave the church! Call the police!" Ushers and male Baptists descended upon the two. "You're a hypocrite!" shrilled the woman. "I'll not be thrown out of the House...
Exhorting eminent Catholics to attend the international pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady at Lourdes, France on Sept. 20, the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, England, exclaimed from his pulpit last week: "What a fine impulse for real peace in Europe if Hitler were to attend...