Word: sermonizer
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From this time (1937) forward, Peter went about his Father's business at the whirlwind pace of a religious tycoon. When he was not converting a sin-sick Senator, he was charging down to Annapolis to read a sizzling sermon over the midshipmen, or bellowing Mairzy Boats at the church canteen for servicemen, or batting out flies with the kids on the parking lot, or marrying some sailor and his girl, or harrying the hangbacks on his board of trustees...
...often happens, when the boys in Hollywood get hold of a picture with a message they work so hard on the sermon that they spoil the picture. The Blackboard Jungle could have been a fine movie, but as it stands now it is an uneven one. It has tried just a little too hard both to shock and to preach...
...supports the Tory decision to use H-bombs if necessary. Addressing the Oxford University Labor Club, Attlee also advised all those, including Churchill and Bevan, who set such store by Big Three talks: "It's no good going to the Kremlin and thinking you can read them the Sermon on the Mount . . . They are tough people, and they certainly don't believe in moral sentiments. Everything they do is for self-interest, and one has to face...
...over the U.S., many enclosing checks. One check came from an Ohio pastor, who had read the TIME story to his congregation. The Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church wrote that he had used the story of Palmer's project in a sermon. A German lieder singer and a French basso profundo offered to do free recordings. The Cornell Glee Club, which had been on a holiday singing tour in Mexico, made the same offer...
...history, literature, and philosophy. "I wanted to start at the beginning," he says, "and I didn't get any further for a long time." It is no wonder that he is just now getting to his chief interest-the nineteenth century-for he spent years reading every available Puritan sermon...