Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laity, not only for the justice of it, but for its vigor and motivation. Such outspoken men are few enough in the ranks of the clergy, and it is an encouraging sign of the age to discover a minister as strong in action as he is from the pulpit...
...Zion, Ill. one night last week Rev. Finis J. Dake read these words, the ten first in the Bible, from his pulpit in small Christian Assembly Church. He continued reading, through Genesis into Exodus. After four hours he stopped. A Mr. Slutz mounted the pulpit, went on where Mr. Dake left off. Two hours later a young woman started in on Leviticus. On & on the reading went, a monotonous drone which was broadcast outside the church with loudspeakers. Preacher Dake was putting on a Bible-reading marathon and wanted everyone to know...
...Though pulpit prudes unendingly abuse...
...second came. The third candidate was James E. Dean, an electrical contractor of Easton, and just as Pastor Brookshire reached up his right hand to assist Dean into the pool, he fell back into the water, dead. Dean reached into the water for him, got him up on the pulpit where every effort was made to revive him, the Rescue Crew of the Fire Department and Dr. P. E. Cox having been summoned immediately...
...Sotheby's and Paris's Hotel Drouot, art auctions in Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries are conducted with éclat. Dealers and bidders sit in a sombre Italianate hall as big as a small theatre while the auctioneer intones numbers from his pulpit. Across a shrewdly lit, velvet-hung stage Negro attendants parade the objects to be sold. If the objects or their owners are of sufficient importance, the sale becomes a major date in the Manhattan social calendar...