Word: sermonizer
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...women and children sat in hot rooms, gazing out over the fields that shimmered in the heat. They, too, seemed to share the defeat which has been administered to the land. . . . You can hear a sermon in the church any Sunday morning or a discourse on the courthouse steps any evening at all, questioning God's approval of crop reduction, herd reduction. The theme is always the same...
...hours before the mass. Not so stalwart was many another Catholic in the Stadium. By the time the mass was under way people in the stands were dropping by dozens. By the time Rev. Dr. Peter Keenan Guilday, Catholic University historian, was in the midst of his long sermon, they were dropping by the hundreds. Ambulances were roaring up & down the cinder paths of the Stadium. Hospital tents were swamped. Fifty extra nurses were recruited from the stands to help out the 100 already on duty...
...white, applied. When he opened his twelve-day revival in Philadelphia Arena, some 5,000 persons of both colors elbowed in. They bought programs, contributed to a collection. Stocky, gold-toothed and grey-haired, Elder Michaux introduced himself as "The 'Happy Am I' preacher," launched into a sermon praising President Roosevelt. ''The President," said he, "sponsored the NRA BlUb Eagle. I sponsor the NRA White Eagle. The difference is that the first stands for National Recovery Administration while mine stands for National Revival Administration. Any doctor will tell you that you can't have recovery...
...Broadway Temple entertainment includes newsreels, secular singers, bell-ringers, trumpeters and Mr. & Mrs. Vanderbilt Shrump, bird imitators. Before a mirror Dr. Reisner fancies he sees a resemblance between himself and George Washington; once a year he likes to dress up like the Father of his Country and preach a sermon. He has also impersonated Joshua...
...pleased worried Monday morning newspaper editors yesterday, his effect on Mr. Johnson's digestion was evidently not quite so satisfactory. His attack on the NRA can satisfy neither its most prominent critics nor its most prominent supporters. In short it has more or less the effect of a Parkhurst sermon in uniting Republican boss Platt and Tammany boss Croker...