Word: amens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, once observed: "The singing of Amen at the end of a hymn always is a bore-why do we keep on doing...
...great German chorals whose sweep and power make them ideal for congregational singing. Many an old hymn has changed its tune. Hymns that were too high-pitched for most singers have been set in a lower key. Except in cases where the hymn is one of praise or prayer, Amen has been dropped from endings...
...tenth anniversary as President of the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt said Amen to a prayer. He did not have the prayer said in strictest privacy, but in the East Room of the White House. And there to say Amen with him were the men & women of high rank in Washington: 250 Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, Congressional leaders, generals and admirals. It was a ritual the President has observed every March 4 since...
Franklin Roosevelt's Amen was loud and clear above the others. It boomed out again at the close of the Prayer for Social Justice: "Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression...
...Prohibition that brought Mencken perhaps his richest experiences and inspired perhaps his most uplifting prose. One day he went with Publisher Alfred Knopf to hear the Bach Choir at Bethlehem, Pa., and "our tonsils became so parched that we could barely join in the final Amen." Rushing frenziedly to a strange speakeasy, they found themselves without a card of introduction. Mencken did not hesitate. Before the eye at the peephole he held his music score. The eye read...