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Word: revivalists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to get the audience in such a state of frenzied enthusiasm that when she came to her climactic outburst it would dash madly to the stage and with her as leader straightway set up a soviet in America? If she were in a Billy Sunda tabernacle or a revivalist revival meeting, she might have done so. But she was in Symphony Hall, in Boston, among the cold and dispassionate. Perhaps it is kinder to imagine that she was merely interpreting her feelings on finding that the last piece of soap in the bath-tub had disappeared down the drain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PAN-SLAVIC MOVEMENT | 10/24/1922 | See Source »

...when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might as well attempt to deny successfully that there was any difference between the general atmosphere surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury and a Methodist Revivalist...

Author: By Arthur C. Train ., (SPECIAL ARTICLE FOR THE CRIMSON) | Title: ARTHUR C. TRAIN DISCUSSES "HARVARD INDIFFERENCE" | 3/21/1921 | See Source »

...when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might as well attempt to deny successfully that there was any difference between the general atmosphere surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury and a Methodist Revivalist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WETWARD HO" TO BE GORGEOUSLY STAGED | 3/21/1921 | See Source »

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