Word: beseecher
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...European goodwill. Told of the death of his ruddy-faced teammate, rheumy Prime Minister Briand seemed heartbroken last week. Quickly he sent official messages of condolence to the German Embassy in Paris, the German government, followed them with a very personal message for his friend's wife: "I beseech you to believe in my sorrowful sympathy in the mourning which strikes you so cruelly. I shall ever guard a precious memory of your husband who in following a common ideal gave me an opportunity of appreciating the high level of his views and the perfect loyalty of his character...
Joan: If I am not, I beseech God to bring me to that State. If I am, I pray that He may preserve...
Thereafter worship ceased, indignation meetings met. However, the National Council of Palestine Jews succeeded in quieting the outraged worshippers, by declaring that it would beseech the League of Nations to restore the Wailing Wall from Moslem to Jewish ownership...
...many as 500 anxious women attended prayer-meetings during the week at Houston, to beseech their God to prevent the Smith nomination. After the nomination and the Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition...
...appeal for TOLERANCE-tolerance of the Book, he appeared to mean. At this crux of debate, the battle of prayers-still raging across the street in Westminster Abbey-reached a climax of Evangelical appeals to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost;* while Anglo-Catholics did not scruple to additionally beseech the Virgin Mary, her mother St. Anne, and many another saint...