Word: devout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This woke up that lion-hearted lawyer, President Jose Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube of the Basques. If a devout Catholic and a communist fanatic could be rolled into one, the result might approximate President de Aguirre. He keeps a tall ebony-&-gold crucifix on his desk but pounds this piece of furniture with voluble class-conscious vim remindful at times of Father Coughlin. As the offensive of General Mola was just getting under way, Basque de Aguirre went on the air with an impassioned broadcast...
This is as it should be, for George VI is to emerge after many exhausting hours of ministrations by the Archbishop of Canterbury and others as officially a persona mixta or "mixed person." In the eyes of faithful, devout members of the Church of England, His Majesty is henceforth a mixture of priest and layman. He has been anointed with holy oil or balm as a bishop is consecrated, and upon his head has briefly rested what is called St. Edward's Crown. This is too sacred to be worn in the open or seen...
...made inevitable" by Machine Age appliances which permit One Man to make friends with all or nearly all his countrymen. The worldwide result, as yet not fully achieved, seems likely to be not Democracy or Dictatorship but both in one-a mystery potent enough to recall the Trinity, since devout Communists and devout Fascists alike today show all the symptoms of religious fanatics...
...chairman. But with an increased sense of work to be done, perhaps even of Reform to be unReformed so that Jews may keep together, the Union last week chose a man of calibre to be its president: Robert Phillips Goldman, 46-year-old Cincinnati lawyer. Although he is a devout worshipper at the Cincinnati Temple named for the founder of U. S. Reform, Isaac Mayer Wise, Lawyer Goldman has devoted his career to Reform of another kind. An authority on proportional representation, he did much backstage work in the Charter movement which ousted Cincinnati's machine government...
That's the story." Canberra, the Capital of Australia: Devout Catholic Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons convenes an emergency session of the Australian Parliament for this week and keeps in continuous touch with Stanley Baldwin by short-wave radio...