Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schuster (after screen re-enactment in The March of Time for last October), reached a circulation of three million copies. It does not venture to translate into pictures much of the lusty and horrifying blood-reek of the article, but it does present, within conventional limits, an energetic little sermon on good highway manners. Lieutenant Knox (Randolph Scott), head of a police traffic department, meets Betty Winslow (Frances Drake) when she is arrested for driving 72 m.p.h. in a 30-m.p.h. zone. His efforts to educate her to caution involve a visit to the morgue and the exhibition...
Thence to talk much of the Baccalaureate Sermon which they all had read, even the little cousin, and much impressed with it; but I did not like it too much: Though I know it be a good proverb that the study of man be the candle of the Lord. And I was also glad to hear come from the President the value of character building in education; for I know, though this be a difficult and drippy subject, yet no wise man will doubt that learning without gentlemaness is a great failure. Yet I know this...
...stoked the church fires, dusted the pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...
According to his father, young Charles prattled at 2½: "Father, I want to preach." Father Jaynes has since obliged by reading sermons to his son, who absorbs them while playing with his fire engine. The little fellow knows the Sermon on the Mount by heart, can recite other long biblical passages without prompting. Observers have been amazed at Charles Jaynes Jr.'s sermon "Heaven," which involves long, complicated passages from the Book of Revelation...
Boasts the nation's youngest evangelist: "I preach the best sermon you ever heard...