Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary plans for the week of Harvard's 295th Commencement have been announced, the arrangements being that the exercises will start on Sunday, June 15 with a Baccalaureate Service in Appleton Chapel at 4 o'clock. At this time the Baccalaureate Sermon will be delivered by President Lowell, who will be assisted in the service by Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Episcopal Theological School...
...shrill soprano solo in the agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward for faithful service varied from nothing (except the privilege of sitting out of sight during the sermon) to Boston's lavish 50?-per-Sunday. Average pay was about 15?. Concluding his article, Author Shafer whimsically proposed an organization of former pumpers. To his amazement, he was flooded by enthusiastic letters. Pumper Affleck wrote first, enclosing a check for 35?-his weekly stipend at pumping-as proposed...
...gold pesetas of government tithes which he is almost certain to lose (though the cautious Alcala Zamora Government has made no definite steps toward the breaking of Church & State). Three weeks ago he attracted a certain amount of unfavorable attention by remarking in the course of a sermon: "May the Republic be cursed!" As it was impossible to blame this pastoral letter on any misquotation, Republican ministers raged. Fernando de los Rios, Minister of Justice, rumbled in his black beard...
...Kansas City, where Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis observed the clergy and evolved Elmer Gantry (TIME, March 14, 1927), Rev. Jesse E. Baker recently surprised his respectable Avondale Methodist Church congregation with a sermon defending a local widow who had been the subject of much moral gossip. Last week he surprised them further by marrying the widow, a Mrs. Stella Gibson...
...City. He was called to attend the funeral. Now was his chance to overcome the jealousy of his predecessor, to do him a good turn! Revivalist Rider got in his automobile, drove to Pastor Brown's house and marched up to offer him the preaching of the Easter sermon...