Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark carpeted passages, like tunnels under the ground. One of these passages leads to the big gallery which, one day last week, was inhabited by a curious and excited crowd. The walls of the gallery were covered with brown burlap and old paintings. In front was an oak pulpit and the auctioneer...
...people who had come to bid were sitting around a long U-shaped table below the auctioneer's pulpit; behind them was a crowd of 300 spectators. The most important prospective bidders were four: B. D. Maggs, representing Maggs Brothers of London; W. Roberts, London bibliophile, representing Gabriel Wells, Manhattan book dealer; E. H. Bring, president of Quaritch's, London dealers in rarities, reputed to be representing the British Museum; and a squat man with a pince nez, Dr. Abraham Wolf Rosenbach, one of the members of the famed Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia dealers in rare books...
...Presbyterians, the Virgin birth is a bone of contention which fundamentalists will not permit liberals to bury. Recently Rev. Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, famed modernist, was installed in the pulpit of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church. Last week, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, fundamentalist, filed with the Presbyterian General Assembly a complaint about Dr. Fitch. At the annual meeting of the assembly, this year to be held at Tulsa, Okla., late in May, Presbyterian squabbles are given a good thorough airing. This may be one of the squabbles which will enliven this year's session: New York Presbytery against...
...pulpit, which always finds it hard to condone the decadence of contemporaneous life, has now collected its adherents to pray for virtuous guidance in the April primary at Chicago. It has become traditional to speak of the seat of America's most recent demagogue as the haunt of light fingered but heavy handed artists, notables for whom the open spaces of Cook country breed only potential victims or competitors; but, in the opinion of the clergy, conditions have reached a parlous state since the last elections, and it is scarcely safer there for a private citizen than it would...
Last week, however, New Yorkers scowled at their Mayor when his invalid stomach was taken as a temperance text by Dr. Christian F. Reisner of the Chelsea Methodist Episcopal Church. With Mayor Walker's knowledge and permission, Dr. Reisner reported from his pulpit, and applauded, the following statement by Mayor Walker: "I drink neither champagne nor alcohol in any form, nor have I since last September. My health is very much better without it. Then, too, while I enjoyed the exhilarating high spots from alcoholic stimulants, the low spots of the next morning collected a heavy toll...