Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation, where they are told to rejoice and to go to work winning new souls. For 50 years Gypsy Smith has opposed the snow-white pulpits and the gaudy theatrical devices of such sensationalists as Rev. William A. Sunday and Rev. Aimee Semple McPherson. "I am alone," he once said. "It is just Jesus and I. I have no singer, no press agent, no personal worker and no chorus leader. . . . Jesus Christ was the greatest gentleman the world ever knew, and He was an evangelist." Nevertheless, the press last...
...exact moment of his death, the chimes of Tufts college rang the choral melody of the Ninth Symphony, while chapels, concert halls and symphony orchestras responded with other Beethoven music. In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, New Orleans, Portland, it was the same. The next day, Sunday, churches of all sects, worshiped in his music. Perhaps the comedy was finished, for every tribute grand enough to be fitting the memory Ludwig van Beethoven consisted of the music created in his own mind...
President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home and, glad to see all men who are students in the University at their house, 17 Quincy Street, Sunday afternoon, April 3, between 4 and 6 o'clock...
...cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage,* who sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks" (TIME, Jan. 24). Edward J. Murphy, devout Roman Catholic, prosecuted for the Crown with vigor, called Atheist Sterry's writings "scandalous, impious, blasphemous, profane and indecent." Judge Coatsworth, Sunday School Superintendent, charged the jury: "Nothing is more sacred to us than our religion. . . . We look upon the Bible as the basis of every good law in our country." The jury, devout men all, took only 25 minutes to pronounce Mr. Sterry guilty. They had found no worth...
Before ending this splurge of architectural enthusiasm the Vagabond strongly advises all his fellows to attend the lecture of Ernest Newman at Symphony Hall this evening. Mr. Newman, the music critic of the London Sunday Times, is considered one of the foremost authorities in the world, and has come all the way from England especially to deliver this lecture in connection with the Beethoven Centenary...