Word: sermonizer
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...production is a risk because it is old fashioned. It is a leisurely piece with a purpose. Brieux, French author of the original, is inclined to propaganda (Damaged Goods and The Red Robe). Modern plays have hurried things up be hind the footlights. If they have a sermon to preach they take care to cast it in intensive words and action. Accused is largely argument, brilliant and searching argument to be sure, but developed in long paragraphs...
...great, the near-great crowded its hundred hotels. Gibble-gabble yielded place to political economy. Sight-seeing became people-seeing. The world was micrographed. On Sunday morning Importance climbed a narrow road up the steep central hill toward church. It went to hear the League of Nations sermon preached by an American, whom a famed Jew, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, had described as "Fosdick?the least hated and best loved heretic that ever lived." That a heretic should also be the most widely acclaimed pulpit-orator of his generation was (to the Geneva cosmopolites) one of those magnificent Americanisms which...
...Louisville, northern capital of the territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, the popular and prominent League of America met to elect officers. Tingling with devout recollection of his masterful sermon on the dance, they chose Dr. John Roach Straton,* Manhattan divine, to be Chairman of the Campaign Committee. For President, they chose William Jennings Bryan, Jr., Los Angeles attorney...
...sermon given at many U. S. metropoles, Dr. Straton describes the evils Df dancing, which he regards as worse than "hugging on the sofa." Thus : "In the case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity ! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily con tact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...
Trusting Providence to let fall upon him the mantle of Fundamentalist leadership which the late W. J. Bryan wore without rival, John Roach Straton, loud Manhattan pastor, has toured from pulpit to pulpit. The sermon which has packed churches miles from Broadway, reaches its climax in a rhapsodic disruption of the modern dance. The climax, as delivered in Louisville, northern capital of territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, follows verbatim...