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Word: sermonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle player. Dan first saw Fortune racing from a village with the entire population thundering hotfooted in his wake. Cornered in a barn, Fortune delivered, gasping, a hell-and-damnation sermon which left not a member of his congregation unchastised. Afterward he explained to Dan'l that he had contracted to give six sermons, but finding only five at the bookstalls, he necessarily made off before the sixth. Sheer terror inspired the extemporaneous barnyard Jeremiad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Phase | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Chief | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Religion remains today, what it always has been, the chief influence over men's lives. Thirty-six thousand people in the Boston Garden last Sunday, with thousands turned away, to hear a simple sermon on the gospel of Jesus Christ would appear to prove this conclusively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gipsy Smith, Famous Evangelist Finds Modern Youth No More Sinful Than Any Other--Religion Retains Old Vitality | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

Another of the Union's criticisms is that the employment of students in the summer months deprives many sailors of a job. It is true that the utilization of students is the cause of some scarcity in sermon's berths but the notorious overslon of the sallor to steady work counteracts this to some extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER SAILORS | 2/13/1929 | See Source »

Prompt to the dot of 10 a. m., the one-time German Court Chaplain, Dr. Heinrich Vogel, preached a sermon extolling the "Christlike qualities of the Emperor." The text had been supplied by Wilhelm II (Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Kaiserlich Geburtstag | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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