Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above the heckling din. Only when she said, "Let us pray," did the studentry bow their heads in real or simulated reverence. When the prayer came to Amen the divine interlude ended: smoke was blown in the McPherson's face and to it was offered many a beer...
...after Rosh Hashonah -on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), which begins at sunset Sept. 23. It is a vigil of fasting and repentance, to be concluded with the cry: "May he who maketh peace in his high places, make peace for us and for all Israel; and say ye, Amen...
...already eloquent in the jargon of eternal love and mortal lust, laying siege to little Lulu Bains, daughter of a deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...
...thus irate was Mr. Eastman. He had shipped virtually all his baggage by another train, and had remained at Luxor for an extra day, to be shown over the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen by famed Egyptologist James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago. With a contented smile, Mr. Eastman remarked that his unburned luggage contains a fine specimen of the nearly extinct white rhinoceros which he shot in the upper Nile region by special permission of the Egyptian Government...
...earth, apostrophized thus: "Great and good friend of my youth and of my riper years! As long as there is still breath in me, for all that I am worth I shall try with God's help to carry on and uphold King Ferdinand's and your great work. Amen...