Word: sermonizer
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...Ignacio Valdespino, Bishop of Aguascalientes, Mexico, a good Roman Catholic, died last week in San Antonio, Texas. The Most Rev. Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, archbishop of San Antonio, pronounced a funeral sermon at a solemn requiem mass in San Fernando cathedral. It was a pronouncement not limited to laudations of the dead man's character. Archbishop Drossaerts pointed out that Bishop Valdespino had belonged to the colony of Catholic refugees who had fled to San Antonio from the Mexican government. He commented on the poverty in which many of them have died, saying that the Most Rev. Jose Mora...
Gazers-on were quite naturally surprised that so staid and lugubrious a representation should be the work of a 23-year-old native of Winston-Salem, N. C. With slow words, Donald Mattison explained about his picture. It was not intended as a sermon but only as "a remark upon life in New York...
...Staunton, Va., six cops made a bet with six reverend preachers. Police against preachers would play volleyball. If the police won, the preachermen would go to jail for an hour. If the preachers won, the cops would go to church the next Sunday and stay for the sermon. ... On Wednesday the games were played. Next Sunday in the front pew of the Episcopal church sat the police force. "God" cried Volleyman-Preacherman J. Lewis Gibbs in the pulpit "is on the side that hits the hardest volleyball...
Lobbying is generally supposed to be an attempt to influence the votes of members of a legislative body. Broadly speaking, every magazine article dealing with a public question, every editorial, sermon, or speech that discusses a legislative measure and expresses views with respect to the principle involved in the proposed legislation or the method adopted to put the principle into effect, is an endeavor "to influence legislation." But the special work of a lobbyist is generally supposed to be to exert influence by secret methods and for special compensation. Apparently, you refer to this aspect of the matter when...
...heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However ridiculous was this solemn echo of an ancient and silly sermon in melodrama, it was impossible not to realize that plays even more foolish have been played this very season, in Manhattan, with an intensity not intended to be comic...