Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short and simple, the reopening service was without sermon, consisted chiefly of a prayer by patriarchal Dean Albert Victor Baillie of Windsor for the "Sovereign and His Companions of the Garter...
Both God and Mammon have at last been served. Sunday their praises were carolled from the pulpit in a sermon whose text was indirectly taken from the Bible. Vanities, saith the preacher, my Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted...
...Ewald were added this month similar charges against Judge Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer. He rose up and castigated Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge...
...regular summer vacation on Mouse Island in Boothbay Harbor, Me., "where a man can put on a flannel shirt in the morning and go to bed in it at night if he feels like it." The church, he saw quickly, would be spick & span enough for his first sermon service therein...
...class. Third Crisis was essentially physical, for never again was the Fosdick faith con founded. Dr. Fosdick's is not a brilliant mind : Dr. Fosdick achieves brilliance. No preacher can equal his combination of simplicity and polish. This he gets by working 10 to 14 hours at a sermon. As a student in Union Theological Seminary he worked 14 hours a day. Besides his regular course, he took philosophy at Columbia. He also conducted a Bowery Mission, sometimes preaching nine times a Sunday to bums and toughs who needed strong, honest medicine. And he supported himself financially. Result: collapse...