Word: revivalistic
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...notorious bestseller, Three Weeks, was credited with inventing "It," an outmoded synonym for the equally outmoded expression "sex appeal.'' Last week Elinor Glyn refreshed the U. S.'s memory about who and what she was. Her autobiography proudly admitted that she had been a successful revivalist of Romance, was just as careful to show that she had always been a Lady...
...Bolshevism can no longer reach. . . . For 14 years we cried, 'Germany, awake!' We were then laughed at and ridiculed, but Germany did awake. Now we cry, 'EUROPE AWAKE!' Der Führer today is not only the Leader of the German people but the spiritual revivalist of Europe against Bolshevism...
...pioneering journey through that religious shadowland which lies between piety and eccentricity, "regions of truth that the official religions and sciences are shy of exploring." Of the nine cultists he has appraised, Author Landau credits Frank Buchman with being "the most successful and shrewdest revivalist of our time." However, Author Landau finds Buchman's movement theologically frivolous, grows sarcastic at the Oxford Group's practice of suppressing or "sublimating" the sex impulse. "Five 'sublimated' Arabs, Italians or Frenchmen," says Pole Landau, "would prove the efficacy of Buchman's sex methods more convincingly than 500 English...
...revival meeting he conducted one night last fortnight at the Full Salvation Union Church in Dearborn, Mich. Evangelist Benjamin Wright had chosen the text: I will pour out my spirit in the last days and the young men shall prophesy and the young women shall dream dreams. In Revivalist Wright's small, fervently praying congregation sat a grizzled Ford Motor Co. employe named La Verne Tapp, his wife Myrtle, his 17-year-old daughter Shirley. The Tapps had been looking forward to the meeting. Shirley, who was "saved" at 14 by the Full Salvation Union, remarked...
...letters. Such organization as Part II has had has been provided by the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith. Nearly a year ago he left the First Christian Church of Shreveport to join Senator Long. A young, vigorous pulpit-pounder, he organized Share-the-Wealth Clubs far & wide on a revivalist basis. Sample of his exhortations: "They said I was run out of St. Francisville. That was a lie. I've never been run out of any town. . . . The only thing about me that will run is my nose. . . . God says the wealth of the land shall be distributed every...