Word: worship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damned fool. They say that these people made me. Want to know my answer? I tell them that if I was made by a bunch of morons, that's just too bad. And besides, if they made me, what do they want my autograph for? You don't worship your own creation, do you?" . . . "The motion picture industry is run by a bunch of stooges...
...five; theatres shut down for two minutes at 11 p. m. for an official news broadcast and the national anthem; bullfights are suspended half way through for cheers for Franco, the anthem and the fascist salute-a ceremony that has much in common with humorless Italian and German leader-worship, and more in common with the seventh-inning stretch...
...play off governments against established churches. He blamed "the sinister figure of the priest," rather than King Carol, for Baptist troubles in Rumania. He paid his respects to "the intolerant temper of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Spain," but cited Generalissimo Franco's pledges for freedom of worship, which he said he believed...
...messengers" from far-flung local churches which, never bound by anything Baptist conventions say or do, are the cornerstone of the Baptist faith. In its week of oldtime oratory and hymn-singing, the Atlanta congress was to hear much of the need for Baptist evangelism, for Baptist freedom of worship in a troubled world. The messengers, most of them sober small-town businessman and their sober wives, eschewed Atlanta's worldly amusements, fraternized with one another and with messengers from overseas. In Atlanta were Baptists from Rumania, from Spain; fourteen Baptists came from Latvia. The Latvians were...
...preaching, shook his finger in the preacher's face, boomed: "Dr. Norris, you murdered D. E. Chipps." Threatened by the congregation, he shouted: "Come on, I'm not afraid of a mob! I can lick a mob with a switch!" He was charged with disturbing public religious worship, but conducted his own defense, examined himself and Dr. Norris (who was not present), won instant acquittal on the ground that the services did not constitute religious worship...