Word: devout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the devout Attorney General was charging through the skies again, his G-Man beside him. When their plane halted at El Paso, Frank Murphy told the waiting press he was on the trail of "an enormous swindle." But Frank Murphy did not say what the "big swindle...
Mississippi's Ross Collins seized the occasion to recall that once when he needed a Biblical quotation for a speech, he borrowed a Bible from the late devout old Congressman Ackerman of New Jersey. On the flyleaf was written: "I had this Bible in my pocket when I went up with Lindbergh...
...said, the Gauls feared only one thing, that Heaven might fall on their heads. Well! That is very much what happened." But the suit was not lost. St. Etienne parish acknowledged the debt, consented in court that judgment be recorded against it. Last week, while the six devout plaintiffs awaited notice of their restoration to the Church, all that remained was to find $261,939.83 to pay off the notes...
...University of Minnesota campus with a studio couch, an upright piano and two trunks, he lived the life of a monk. When he did go out for an evening, it was not with Minneapolis' dowagers but with some fiddler or bassoonist from his own orchestra. A devout Greek Orthodox Catholic, he wore a crucifix inside his shirt and a medallion of the Virgin Mary in the lining of his coat, never ventured to conduct without them both. When he was not conducting or studying scores, he could usually be found in the gallery of a Nicollet Avenue cinema theatre...
...years ago in Chicago St. Dismas came into his own. The Good Thief attracted the whimsical but devout interest of a convert to Roman Catholicism, Dempster MacMurphy of the Daily News. Orator, raconteur, ex-song-&-dance man, MacMurphy was a well-born Southerner who added a "Mac" to his natal Murphy simply because there were no MacMurphys in the telephone book. He made a fortune as a vice president in the Insull empire, lost it in the crash, slept on park benches until he got a job on the News. One of his first News stories was about the feast...