Word: pulpiteering
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...book is best when it describes the waits between action, the stolid troops, the squalor of encampments, the casualness with which a field kitchen is constructed from gravestones, the pulpit of a mosque broken up for firewood, the everlasting search for provisions and the solid enjoyment that comes from the windfall that is a well-cooked meal. Old campaigners will appreciate Gary's admiring definition of an old soldier, later echoed by Bernard Shaw in Arms and the Man: "A man who always has something eatable in his haversack and drinkable in his bottle, a reserve of tobacco...
Pregnancy in the Pulpit...
...happy nonfeminist woman in the ministry, I would like to point out that the fear of a pregnant woman in the pulpit is by no means universal [April 25]. My son is still dressed almost entirely by the loving gifts of my former parishioners, and my present parishioners decided to call me to this charge less than two months before he was born. My husband and I hope to have a large family, and so far as I know, no one-in either parish-has been horrified at the prospect...
...preacher, and proud Mattie Powell rewarded him with $2,500 to make a four-month tour of Europe and Africa, including a chauffeur-driven trip through the Holy Land. In 1932 Powell's father had a nervous breakdown, and young Adam unhesitatingly took over his pulpit in the emergency. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome man and a spellbinding orator, he was a roaring success; his maiden sermon left the congregation weeping and shouting amen. Five years later, when Adam Sr. retired, his son became full pastor of the church...
...When the New York Telephone Co. balked at his demands, Powell threatened to disrupt the system by instructing his followers to dial the operator for every telephone call they made. The telephone company promptly capitulated, began to hire Negroes. "Negroes have got to be radicals," Powell shouted from the pulpit and the political platform. "Only radical measures can liberate...