Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independence, he was met by his brother Vivian and his old crony, U.S. Marshal Fred Canfil (see cut). That night he pointedly stayed away from the Democratic rally in the Memorial Building, instead drove over to Grandview to visit his 93-year-old mother. In his absence Mayor Roger Sermon explained the facts of life to Harry Truman's puzzled fellow citizens. "He'd give his right arm to be here tonight, but there are some things he can't do. He must preserve the dignity of his office...
...Conference had made the proposal in 1920: that the Church of England and Britain's Nonconformist churches enter into "full communion" as the first step toward a church united. For more than a quarter century thereafter the project gathered dust in ecclesiastical archives. But this week, in a sermon at the University of Cambridge, the Most Rev. and Right Honorable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, forcibly reminded British Christians that the idea was not dead. Excerpts...
...hymnology this was a considerable improvement, but the services at St. Paul's were more memorable for a really impressive prose passage from the Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon...
...presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party ("I got drunk when I was 16 . . . have been ashamed ever since") ; and Mrs. Lily Galloway, 60, California temperance leader; both for the second time; in Columbus, Ga. Cried ecstatic Mrs. Galloway: "Brother Willie's life is more like the Sermon on the Mount . . . than any other man I've known." Chuckled the groom: "I'm blending romance with religion...
...Sylvia Sidney and Robert Young preached an, angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats in Lillian Hellman...