Word: sermonizer
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...League circles the Henderson "Sermon on Disarmament" was rated of paramount importance, considered the deadliest shaft yet loosed at the prospective "United States of Europe," held to mark the emergence of "Uncle Arthur" as a figure of world significance-much as his colleague, tart-tongued Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden became an international personage last year in a single day at The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929 et ante...
...suffering a nervous relapse because a lunatic had hurled a snake through her window. Los Angeles Templars were debating whether or not they should begin a three-day fast to restore Sister's sight, although the attending physician announced that she would probably be able to deliver the Sunday sermon...
...disgruntled Prussian militarists of the Ludendorff school blame Germany's loss of the War on Christianity. They have started a cult of Wodan, the Teuton's remorseless God of War. Last week a sermon on Wodan was preached by General Erich von Ludendorff himself to a group of Wodanists assembled in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein...
Socialism as well as Christianity is a Ludendorff bête noir. In reporting his "sermon" the great Berlin Socialist daily Vorwarts headlined: "Perfectly Silly!," declared it scandalous that a Missionary of Wodan is allowed to draw a general's pension from the Republic's Treasury...
...Plummers Corner, suburb of Auburn. Me., Mrs. Carleton Proctor thought the abandoned Little Methodist Church should be used. She got the key, threw out the church supper dishes, scrubbed the floors, filled the lamps, tidied all things. Then she invited neighbors to hear her preach. During a long sermon she announced: "This is God speaking. He is going to have a clean house here. There are never going to be any more church suppers." The congregation walked...