Word: sermonizer
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Manuel Quezon, 65, first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, lay in a log house at Saranac Lake, N.Y. He was listening: his physician was reading aloud from the Sermon on the Mount. Tuberculosis had almost conquered his fighting-bantam little body. But he did not believe he could die when the sun was shining, and now it was bright morning. After a while he asked that the radio be turned on. The news: U.S. troops had landed at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Manuel Quezon, who had dreamed of re-entering Manila with General MacArthur, exclaimed: "Just 600 miles!" Then...
Damnation! He cited a Presbyterian chaplain who "never taught a class at the Chaplains' School but what he used profanity. On one occasion [when] one of the students was giving a sermon before the class, the student happened to say 'I think,' and at this [the chaplain] blurted out 'Hell! We don't give a damn what you think!' This was much to the amazement of the class...
...Australian slangsters apply "dinkum," meaning "genuine," "the real thing," to anything from a sermon to a race horse. Nearest U.S. equivalent: "the McCoy...
...morning of the day all the "inceptors" attended Mass (our modern equivalent is the Baccalaureate Sermon), and then marched in solemn procession into the university church where Commencement was held. The presiding officer read each candidate's name aloud and asked the assembled Masters of Arts if it pleased them to have him admitted to their fraternity. They replied "placet" or "non placet," and if the "placets...
...Reverend Henry B. Washburn, D.D., Dean Emeritus of the Episcopal Theological School and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Preachers, will recognize the presence of college seniors in the conduct of the service on Sunday, June 25, although he will not present a formal baccalaureate sermon. Special pews in the Memorial Church will be reserved for the seniors who are graduating and for their families and friends...