Word: pulpiteers
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...playgoer cannot place any blame on the supporting cast members who could do no more than mouth the words that evidently sung themselves into Mrs. Luce's ears. The words belong in a pulpit, not on a stage. Nor can the supporting players be blamed for not helping the audience understand the play's last wild thirty seconds where everyone is converted to the true faith...
...beginning to look as if the Rev. John Urich would never find a pulpit. Sunday after Sunday, for almost a year, he went to Lutheran churches whose pastors were leaving or sick or on vacation. Sunday after Sunday, each church thanked him very much, and that was all. His preaching was fine, they admitted, his handling of the service was perfect, but how can a minister be expected to look after the church and make the parish calls and all the other things a minister has to do-when both he and his wife are blind...
...tenor of his speech gradually changed from denunciation of the Catholic officials who had taken his pulpit away from him to a bitter dissertation on Jews and the Jewish faith. "For all my troubles, I've been calied every name that a Jew or a heretic could think of," he began...
...follow through on a very sticky wicket, here is an extension of the delicate differences between the two Ancient & Honourable Universities as observed by an American [and Cantabrigian]. Oxford: Scotch whisky, Parliament, Press & Pulpit, Beautiful men, Boyish women, Refined brilliance, Marry good country girls or Americans. Cambridge: Audit ale, Poetry, Pubs & Privacy, Handsome men, Manly women, Rough genius, Marry lusty city girls or Continentals...
...years ago when Jerry Owen was number one sparring partner for boxer Max Baer. Baer moved on to Hollywood as a slapstick comedian; Owen left him and started up the sawdust trail as an evangelist. As Owen explains it, Jesus came down one night to call him to the pulpit. Jesus said "Come on Jerry, I'se got sumpin' for you--I'm gone make you a fisher of men." Then Jesus dropped into the background to brush up on his grammar, and Jerry Owen baited his hook...