Word: pulpiteering
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...true Harvard has, in a remarkably short space of time, broken away both from the old Harvard, and from the general trend of American education. President Lowell's regime has been one of pure experimentation and Harvard has stepped in pulpit position and has pushed bravely on as a doctrinaire...
Many a bimah (pulpit) of New York synagogs vibrated with Rabbinical wrath last Friday evening. The Kashruth Association, guild of ritual food inspectors, met during the week in anger. Some 6,500 kosher butcher shops feared for their supplies. Half as many kosher delicatessen stores were worried about their spicy provender; householders in The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn chirped excitedly. All because of horrid disclosures of racketeering in the city's kosher food markets (see p. 15). The Kashruth Association called conditions in the kosher chicken markets "a blot upon the good name of the Jew." The Kashruth...
...Foust Wiley as a publicist and publisher, a citizen of acknowledged judgment and influence, and Mr. Frank Furbus Dinsmore as a lawyer of high repute and marked ability. . . . "Into the hush of this ambient twilight came the bridal procession, the feathery green of tender laurel that wreathed choir stalls, pulpit and rood screen, and the curving fronds of a few giant palms massed in the chancel, pointing the way to the altar where the snowy chalices of tall Easter lilies were sentineled by blazing candelabra, seven-branched. . . . "Very pretty with lovely light brown hair and gray-blue eyes, the bride...
...audience understood more than the gist of Sir Henry's discourse. He stood behind a lectern in the amphitheatre's pit, tall, domed and ruddy, looking like a vicar in a pulpit, and in a rich baritone spoke at length about the drugs which the body creates within itself. The hormones are among such drugs. Histamine and acetycholine are two subtle auto-pharmacals with which he dealt particularly. Histamine seems to be a generalized component of body tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their...
...salesman heard testimony by Miss Huffman, Mrs. Conway, a neighbor, and a woman who told how Miss Huffman had twice before accused men of attacking her. Mr. Conway appealed to his church on the strength of his civil acquittal, but the original church sentence-suspension from his pulpit for one year-was upheld...