Word: sermonizer
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...rattle beads, or play with your gloves or purse during the Sermon...
...Meantime, at the other end of Tennessee, in Memphis, a colleague of Mr. Cowan was doing likewise. Lean-&-hungry-looking Rev. Howard ("Buck") Kester, secretary of the Fellowship, appeared at a meeting of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, preached a "funeral sermon" over a "coffin" (a black cigar box) representing the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers Association (C. I. O. union), from which S.T.F.U. had broken off (TiME, March 20). Said "Buck" Kester: "I have racked my memory for something good to say about the deceased, but I have found none...
Harwood used as his passage "After Munich", from Neville Chamberlain's September speech, while Blackwell delivered excerpts from Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body." "Patterns of Survival" by John H. Bradley was Whittier's passage and Thomas a Becket's Christmas Sermon as rendered by T. S. Eliot '10 in his "Murder in the Cathedral" was chosen by Bernard Rivin...
...Union Church of Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), Presbyterian Rev. John Paul Jones acceded. As he mounted his pulpit, he was seized and dragged away by two parishioners in brown shirts. Then a painted prison set labeled "Sachsenhausen" was stood before the pulpit. Mr. Jones appeared behind it, preached a sermon on Niemoller through its barred window...
...human writing machine Edgar Wallace had no rivals. But it would occur to few serious writers to pick him for the subject of a biography; if they did, it would be an almost irresistible temptation to make him into a satire or a sermon...