Word: amens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tree on the Baylor campus. Two men died in a gunfight over his charges. But he kept returning to the attack against "splenetic-hearted hypocrites and pietistical deadbeats," lashed the Baptist elders as "bipedal brutes...whom an inscrutable Providence has kept out of the penitentiary to ornament the amen-corner," scorned the Baylor faculty as "men who cannot write deer sur without the expenditure of enough nervomuscular energy to raise a cotton crop...
...heard the pastor, the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, offer a special prayer for the President of the U.S.: "Surround him with healing ministries that in the completeness of health and strength he may fulfill his high calling in the service of mankind through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen." And when the President, bundled up in a heavy blue overcoat, left the church after service, he shrugged off the helping hand of the pastor at his elbow, instead guided Mamie firmly down the steps. He smiled somewhat wistfully as a crowd of about 300 people outside the church broke into...
...chorus, a thunderous "Amen!" from the stamp of heavy shoes and the clap of hairless hands. Youth spilled out last Friday night like so much combustible gas, gathered as a gust and bright balloon, rose, burst with a desultory bang, and was gone. Leaving only the silence of the morning after...
...name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost Amen. I promise and vow to Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, before the whole company of heaven, and be-you, my Fathers, that I will live in celibacy, poverty, and obedience, as one of the Mission Priests of St. John the Evangelist unto my life's end. So help...
...critics-who generally understand music 50 years after the public-Mr. Menotti's music should be commended for its honesty, simplicity and clarity. Ah, let's see, what else? Oh yes, he died without a penny. No one was especially overjoyed by his death. Pray for him. Amen...