Word: preacherman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...long time people have been trying to find a phrase that will define the personality of the Rev. John Roach Straton, Manhattan preacherman. "Fundamental-ist," "Denouncer," "Loud Baptist," "Saint," "Savior," "Hypocrite," "Dolt" have been variously tried by friends and enemies; none have seemed adequate. Last week the Rev. Mr. Straton made still more difficult the task of definers by as- suming "the headship of all the religious activities of the Supreme Kingdom...
...Centennial Gate and the Stadium long narrow buses with red lights, electric motors and canvas roofs plied to and fro, silent as lizards. They were crowded. Diplomats, politicians, millionaires, sailors, Negroes, sportsmen went by. Vincent Richards, the tennis player, and his wife, and a raincoat. A huge black preacherman in a woman's straw hat. Mortimer Schiff. Mayor Walker...
Standing in a dense crowd at Lafayette Mall on the Common, Boston, an untidy-looking man with a bundle of magazines under his arm put a 50¢ piece between his teeth, bit it hard and grinned. In front of him stood a preacherman whom some recognized as Rev. Jason Franklin Chase, Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, guardian of Boston morals. Nearby waited a distinguished gentleman whom some recognized as Arthur Garfield Hays, lawyer, defender of John Scopes, of the Countess Cathcart. And everybody stared unfavorably at the untidy man with the magazines. He had just committed...
...wont, that he had seen two holdups on a single morning in Chicago. When the Chicago Evening Post offered him $100 if he could support this assertion (TIME, Sept. 28) many thought that the U. S. would be entertained with one or more demonstration of this preacherman's blatancy. Instead, Dr. Stratton last week submitted written evidence and received the $100, which he will devote to a Fundamentalist charity...