Word: sermonizer
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...Buckner has sat for 33 years as director, four years as president of New York Life. This chubby-cheeked little man had gone to St. Petersburg, Fla. to attend a meeting of insurance agents. In his 54 years with New York Life President Buckner has penned many a homely sermon to inspire his salesmen.* Restless, singleminded, immensely capable, he began as an office boy in Milwaukee, attracted the attention of New York Life's Agency Inspector George W. Perkins (who became a Morgan partner) when he sold $250,000 worth of life insurance in Iowa his first year...
...pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors. The new President was so impressed that he had the film made from the book shown twice at the White House and Pundit Walter Lippmann composed a high-minded sermon on its lack of intrinsic importance. Now, without benefit of a rewrite-man, the Briton who learned his political realism under David Lloyd George has tried it again, in another fuzzy apocalyptic novel of the future...
...rocking my child on my knee and saying dada and goo-goo and oo-ittle-wubbity-wart. Virtues will be sticking out of me like candles out of a birthday cake. Squeeze me and I'll break into prayer. Kick me and I'll recite the Sermon on the Mount...
...awoke to what they called the Menace of Modernism in their midst. Their church, they vowed, should forth with be purged of those who did not believe as they did. In the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church was preaching Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick. In a famed sermon entitled Shall the Fundamentalists Win? Dr. Fosdick dared to point skeptically to analogs of miracles and virgin births in non-Christian religions. For that the Presbyterian Fundamentalists chased Dr. Fosdick out of their church back into his own. Later Presbyterian William Jennings Bryan became the great lay leader of Fundamentalism...
...continued with "The Peace of God That Passeth All Understanding" (music by Gluck); "The Universality of God" (Beethoven); "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" (Bach); "The Deep Sense of Abiding in God" (Beethoven); "Angels Announcing the Coming of the Messiah" (Bach). The whole thing was a "Sermon in Six Dances" meant to portray "The Coming of the Messiah...