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Word: sermonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange chime of their singing. But last week the voice of one of God's servants ran through the sky like an invisible lightening, came, out of many boxes, into the parlors of many U. S. homes. God's servant, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, was preaching his sermon through a microphone at the first service of the National Church of the Air. When his sermon ceased, hymns and anthems, sung by a quartet, came out of the parlor radio sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: National Church | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...platter. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns of Boston were the only White House guests, so there was plenty for all.* Dinner was served in the evening after a day, more springlike than autumnal, during which President & Mrs. Coolidge sat in a box at Keith's Theatre and heard a sermon on "The Real Thanksgiving" by Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, whose First Congregational Church is being repaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched his life-and painstakingly methodical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Derby Sale | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

That "the hope of the world lies in renewing one man at a time" and that "united world improvement is impossible" were outstanding points in the sermon of Bishop W. L. Slattery D. D. delivered yesterday morning in Appleton Chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "UNITED WORLD ADVANCE IMPOSSIBLE"--SLATTERY | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...large, clumsy, borrowing animal, not totally unlike a pig, which weighs up 100 Ibs. The wombat of Mr. Sermon weighed 67 lbs. when dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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