Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas is out of step with the American public. The man who once saw American life and its foibles clearly has become blinded by passion to the majority mind of the nation. He is turning the stage into a wet pulpit from which to slander lawmakers, officials and his fellow citizens...
Trusting Providence to let fall upon him the mantle of Fundamentalist leadership which the late W. J. Bryan wore without rival, John Roach Straton, loud Manhattan pastor, has toured from pulpit to pulpit. The sermon which has packed churches miles from Broadway, reaches its climax in a rhapsodic disruption of the modern dance. The climax, as delivered in Louisville, northern capital of territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, follows verbatim...
...sometime King of Portugal was helped to a quiet corner. Sir Gerald Du Maurier stared from a bench, uttering little cries of admiration. Lord Beatty stood up near the pulpit and facing him, packed along wooden forms like rooks on a wire, were all the famed Art collectors, connoisseurs in England. They had come to Christie's auction rooms to bid for the odds and ends that John Singer Sargent left around his studio when he died (TIME, Apr. 27). The auctioneer turned suavely to the gentlemen on the forms, nodding at a raised finger that meant 200 guineas, catching...
Down will come some apartment houses and private dwellings near the Union Theological Seminary on Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Up will go a temple. The tearing down and the building up will be largely financed by John. Davison Rockefeller Jr. In the temple will be a pulpit. And in the pulpit will be Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...That the delegates from the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, should not be seated at the convention. The reason offered for this was that, recently, that church invited Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Modernist, to its pulpit, opened its membership to persons of other denominations and announced that it would not make complete immersion in baptism compulsory (TIME...