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Word: sermonized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began with a perfunctory White House morning schedule, including a check to see whether flowers had been dispatched to the funeral of his good friend, Roger Sermon, mayor of Independence, Mo. Then it shifted to Washington's Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul. There, on an unseasonably balmy afternoon, bareheaded Harry Truman and Bess, too warm in a mink cape and navy blue taffeta, tried in vain not to steal the show. They wanted to be as inconspicuous as any of the other 1,100 guests at the wedding of Treasury Secretary John Snyder's hearty, handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Dear Hearts & Gentle People | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...STRANGE ERROR CREPT INTO YOUR REPORT OF SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS'S SERMON IN ST. PAUL'S [TIME, JAN. 16]. ACCORDING TO STORY ["VOICES IN THE EXCHEQUER"], NEWSMAN ASKED ABOUT ABSURD RUMOR THAT CRIPPS HEARS DIVINE VOICES, AND CRIPPS REPLIED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...Episcopal Church of St. Clement, two halves of the congregation face each other while during the sermon the preacher faces the middle space between the two groups, so that they may gaze at each other, apparently ignoring the preacher. This is the opposite of functionalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...known that his decision would be announced in his Sunday sermon after he had knelt for six hours in solitary prayer to wrestle with the devil of indecision. The Rev. Bill prepared a publicity handout explaining his problem and what he planned to tell his congregation. "These last few weeks," he said, "have been the most difficult of my life . . . The threat of dirty methods has not been an important factor in my final decision. From rather good authority, I have been informed that whispering campaigns were already being planned, such as: 'society preacher,' 'gambling preacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: The Call | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...audience was quiet and attentive to the sermon, unlike some revival audiences this writer has seen in the South. Some excerpts from the sermon: "It was the common people that Christ appealed to. And it's the common people that Communism is appealing to. Communism is inspired by the Devil . . . Another evangelist once told me, 'Billy, the spiritual mentality of our people is only 12 years old, remember that. We need to talk the language of the streets today.' . . . But I tell you that a revival will come, I tell you, brother, it will come when the first bomb...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 1/11/1950 | See Source »

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