Word: amenability
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Forgive our foolish ways, capture our truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...
...third, by candle light. Curiosity-seekers motored from Chicago and Milwaukee to listen and watch. At last Mr. Dake got up to attend to Revelations himself. Whipping through its 22 chapters in 55 min. he read, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, and flipped the Bible closed. The reading of 773,746 words had been done in 69 hr. 17 min., which Preacher Dake declared a record. (In Cincinnati the Old & New Testament were read synchronously in 16 hr. 40 min. -TIME, March 27.) Challenging any church to put up a team he said...
Broomsticks, Amen! (by Elmer Greensfelder; produced by Thomas Kilpatrick). "All things come in threes," intones the patriarch of the Hofnagel family, holding aloft a length of red string. "Birth, life and death. Sun. moon and stars. Father, mother and child." The old man is "doing for" a neighbor's sick baby. From head to foot over the infant, lying on a table beneath his rapt gaze, he draws the red string from which he then plucks some invisible thing and casts it aside. He mutters "sanctious words," with his own hand scoops away the evil aura enveloping the small...
James Henry Breasted, famed Orientalist of the University of Chicago, announced he was going back to work on King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb in March. Of the Sunday-supplement "Curse of the Pharaohs," which is supposed to kill off Egyptian tomb-snoopers and which was revived last fortnight by the death of famed British Egyptologist Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (TIME, Jan. 15), Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals...
...never felt better in his life after sleeping for two weeks in King Tut-Ankh-Amen's Tomb...