Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently he preaches on Sundays at Boston's Morgan Memorial Church, which has a Unitarian congregation but, by the terms of a bequest which gave it its property, must keep a Methodist in its pulpit...
...great crowd was hushed. Ushers were still showing last minute arrivals to their seats, but nearly every place was taken: row on row of Harvard men, many of them accompanied by ladies, waiting in tense expectancy. It wouldn't be long now until Harry Emerson Fosdick mounted the pulpit of Memorial Church. Down in front, ideally situated for the coming spectacle, were two rows of seats, reserved for the President of the University and prominent guests, but as yet unoccupied...
...Allah Akbar . . . God is great. . . . The Imam droned prayers, snatches from the Koran in Arabic, sitting cross-legged near his pulpit in a long green robe and a green fez (signifying that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca). Squatting on prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the U. S. It was the eve of Ramadan, to Mohammedans the holiest and most rigorous month...
...diversion the delegates and their ladies attended a WPA play, excursioned to mountains, inspected the Moffat Tunnel. On Sunday many a Denver church had an A. F. of L. leader in the pulpit...
...Governor of Connecticut, presented the symbols of office-the mace, the keys, the record book, the charter and the great seal of the university-in sonorous Latin pronounced him the 15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril of isolation," pledged "absolute intellectual freedom," exhorted Yalemen: "The duty of protecting freedom of thought and speech is the more compelling in these days when the liberal spirit in the world at large is in deadly peril...