Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stuffy League Assembly, hothouse of Europe's statesmen in more senses than one, sprouted suddenly last week a solemn Jack-in-the-Pulpit...
...rostrum "Uncle Arthur" looked strangely thin. No wonder. He had just lost a "stone" (14 lb.). Under doctors' orders he and Mrs. Henderson spent most of August gulping down the slimming waters of a Welsh spa (Llandrindod Wells), from which they hastened via London to Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United States...
...leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator Nicholas Murray Butler. The 95 lines of Preacher & Author William Eleazer Barton, famed father of a famed son (Advertising Man Bruce Barton), eight times an editor, 59 times an author (The Soul of Abraham Lincoln, The Women Lincoln Loved, Acorns from an Oak Park Pulpit), put him third by another two thin lines...
More promising as pulpit topics for the winter ahead were a dozen cognate resolutions on marriage and sex problems. In part these controversial resolutions read...
Sing You Sinners and Across the Breakfast Table Looking at You (Victor)-Frank Harling's pulpit jazz, harmonized by the Revelers, makes this well worth its price...