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  1. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.
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  2. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.
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  3. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    Street, and she was able to give Elmer the three hundred
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  4. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    Eddie Fislinger's church was an octagonal affair, with the pulpit in one angle, an arrangement which produced a fascinating, rather dizzy effect, reminiscent of the doctrine of predestination.
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  5. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    lead an almost irritatingly pure life, but who had no
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  6. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?''Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be.
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  7. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    It was not an esthetic room. Though Frank Shallard might have come to admire pictures, great music, civilized furniture, he had been trained to regard them as worldly, and to content himself with art which 'presented a message,' to regard 'Les Miserables' as superior because the bishop was a kind man, and 'The Scarlet Letter' as a poor book because the heroine was sinful and the author didn't mind.
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  8. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    Well, he'd get help from the Bible. It was all inspired, every word, no matter what scoffers like Jim said. He'd take the first text he turned to and talk on that.He opened on: 'Now THEREFORE, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which ARE beyond the river, be ye far from thence,' an injunction spirited but not at present helpful.
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  9. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    The Reverend Elmer Gantry was reading an illustrated pink periodical devoted to prize fighters and chorus girls in his room at Elizabeth J. Schmutz Hall late of an afternoon when two large men walked in without knocking."Why, good evening, Brother Bains-Brother Naylor! This is a pleasant surprise. I was, uh- Did you ever see this horrible rag? About actoresses. An invention of the devil himself. I was thinking of denouncing it next Sunday. I hope you never read it-won't you sit down, gentlemen?-take this chair- I hope you never read it, Brother Floyd, because the footsteps of-
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  10. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.
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  11. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    He had learned how to assemble Jewish texts, Greek philosophy, and Middle-Western evangelistic anecdotes into a sermon. And he had learned that poverty was blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons.
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  12. Sinclair Lewis _ Elmer Gantry

    He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason
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