Word: devout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Franklin Jarman was making $35,000 a year in Nashville's J. W. Carter Shoe Co., which belonged to his cousins. According to legend, 52-year-old Shoeman Jarman, a Baptist deacon, felt unchristian making so much money and also found the Carters, though good folk, not devout enough. One day he went alone to Franklin, a tiny town 18 miles south of Nashville, rented a hotel room. All day long, Bible in hand, he communed with the Almighty. When he emerged he was convinced that it was God's will that he form his own shoe...
...which sapped the strength of Pope Pius XI for almost three years. His early love for mountain climbing and his simple manner of living kept him in excellent health until he was well into his seventies. But for the last three years the sick man of Europe has kept devout Catholics, as well as reporters and radio commentators, awake many a night as he spectacularly battled death...
...Pinafore, Cox and Box, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, Patience) was velvety and letter-perfect as ever. To the irreverent, there might be something a trifle ritualistic about the performances, as though the matter in hand were sacred music rather than light opera; but the devout could only praise Heaven that nothing had been changed, that not a single present-day allusion had been adlibbed into the patter songs...
Franklin D. Roosevelt is an Episcopal churchwarden and an occasional worshipper, but he has never been so prone to invoke his Maker as were Calvin Coolidge and Warren G. Harding. To many devout churchmen he appeared to have the failings of most modern political liberals - a secular conception of political morality, an indifference about religion's place in the modern state. Last week, as Franklin Roosevelt delivered his message to the 76th Congress, it was evident that he, like other liberals, had come to feel differently about religion in the world about him. His opening words were texts...
Adding a new catch-word to his growing collection, Mr. Lippmann fixed on the President's references to religion as being the casiest to distort. With a skill derived from experience, he took Mr. Roosevelt's concept of devout, pious, moral religion and deliberately confused it with the medieval dogma of temporal churches. And out of this tortured thinking he drew a religion of his own making, "mysticism" as practised by the Oxford Group, passive, ennervating, a religion that would do away with such Marxian innovations as strikes, wage increase demands and the class struggle in general. Labelling this...