Word: devout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfonso XIII. Surely all U. S. gentlefolk who ever gloated over the U. S. defeat of Regent Christina's forces must feel a little sheepish as they view again her picture (see cut). Spaniards know that Queen Christina combined the majesty and mass of a Roman Emperor with the devout, portly sweetness of a Mother Abbess...
...Many a devout Roman Catholic is a Rotarian. Last week many a Catholic Rotarian was troubled and disturbed by words in L'Osservatore Romano, official organ of the Vatican...
...agile athlete and a daring Alpinist in his cold youth. Though never a fancy skater or ski jumper, His Holiness was once an intrepid bobsledder and a skilled toboggan steersman. The present twelvemonth, 1929, is his "Jubilee year"-the 50th since he first celebrated Mass-and therefore devout Catholics hoped, last week, that by next Christmas the "Prisoner of the Vatican" will be released and restored to an athletic life...
...weazened ancients were among them. Some said it was the Blessed Virgin, others that it was St. Anne herself. Skeptical experiments were made by extinguishing neighborhood street lights and lights within the church. The image persisted. Perhaps it was the filter of moonbeams through the trees. Each night the devout met and knelt before the door...
Divorced. James Cash Penney, Jr., glider enthusiast, son of the famed chain store tycoon and devout Methodist benefactor of Whiteplains, N. Y., & Miami; by Marie Louise du Coudray Penney of Manhattan. Two days after their marriage in 1924 the Penneys were separated...