Word: sermonizer
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...nigh every night and came in looking all whipped down. . . . When she asked him where he went he made power ful good excuses, for he had a mighty glib tongue. He swore to God the first night that the holy spirit had fallen on him so heavy during the sermon he had to leave the church and go off in the woods to pray. ... He talked mighty sweet about how he hated to leave her home by herself and all like that, but his tongue fumbled so it could not talk sweet enough to fool her. She had a good...
...Thornes in their house of thatch heard the words of scripture and a prayer in their own language; and also a sermon by Bishop Adna Leonard who concluded that the U. S. in the midst of all its troubles needed, even more than new laws, ''the . . . spiritual note which will lift up Jesus Christ as the burning centre of the Church's faith to you devoted missionaries who are carrying the gospel of the Son of God to the Christless millions of the earth...
...habits and sandals; dozens of Bishops all in copes & mitres save two who wore low-church chimera and academic hoods (one of these. Bishop Francis Marion Taitt of Pennsylvania, had welcomed the Congress saying his diocese had all sorts of churchmanship "but most churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon of the Mass Bishop Perry exclaimed: "The way of communion with God is the only way by which Christian reunion shall at last be realized. Catholic Christianity bears witness to the wholeness of faith, it is a spiritual condition essential to the vision of God's whole...
...effort to bottle up the Northwest's output until prices rose. Doubting the legitimacy of the measure, Governor Langer's neighbors declined to join his embargo. But Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, brother of the late Great Commoner, took the Langer invitation for a text, delivered a sermon of his own on the woes of farmers. Governor Bryan dramatically declared: "The unrest in the nation is increasing. All of the anti-trust laws have been either nullified or overridden. The people are now being plundered. The prices of the farmers' products are decreasing so his throat...
...inverse proportion to the fury of its advertising campaign. As the "Bureau of Missing Persons" appears on the screen, it is a harmless tale centered around the adventures of a young detective in the particular department under inspection. His inexperience is considered sufficient justification for a lengthy sermon on the value of the Bureau; his presence imparts some continuity to the series of otherwise unconnected incidents; his youth is Hollywood's reason for dragging in the love interest...