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Word: sermonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Col. George M. Sliney, Wyoming pioneer, lifelong friend of Buffalo Bill, first to officiate at a wedding and preach a funeral sermon in the Big Horn Basin; to be mayor of Thermopolis, Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Ignacio Valdespino, Bishop of Aguascalientes, Mexico, a good Roman Catholic, died last week in San Antonio, Texas. The Most Rev. Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, archbishop of San Antonio, pronounced a funeral sermon at a solemn requiem mass in San Fernando cathedral. It was a pronouncement not limited to laudations of the dead man's character. Archbishop Drossaerts pointed out that Bishop Valdespino had belonged to the colony of Catholic refugees who had fled to San Antonio from the Mexican government. He commented on the poverty in which many of them have died, saying that the Most Rev. Jose Mora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death in Mexico | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Gazers-on were quite naturally surprised that so staid and lugubrious a representation should be the work of a 23-year-old native of Winston-Salem, N. C. With slow words, Donald Mattison explained about his picture. It was not intended as a sermon but only as "a remark upon life in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prix de Rome | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Staunton, Va., six cops made a bet with six reverend preachers. Police against preachers would play volleyball. If the police won, the preachermen would go to jail for an hour. If the preachers won, the cops would go to church the next Sunday and stay for the sermon. ... On Wednesday the games were played. Next Sunday in the front pew of the Episcopal church sat the police force. "God" cried Volleyman-Preacherman J. Lewis Gibbs in the pulpit "is on the side that hits the hardest volleyball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Lobbying is generally supposed to be an attempt to influence the votes of members of a legislative body. Broadly speaking, every magazine article dealing with a public question, every editorial, sermon, or speech that discusses a legislative measure and expresses views with respect to the principle involved in the proposed legislation or the method adopted to put the principle into effect, is an endeavor "to influence legislation." But the special work of a lobbyist is generally supposed to be to exert influence by secret methods and for special compensation. Apparently, you refer to this aspect of the matter when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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