Word: devout
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...Before God to Hitler!" In Germany devout Christians, heartened by their priests and pastors, have been called a bulwark against Nazi extremism. To win the votes of these good folk by unctuous conciliation last week was not the strategy of "My Leader." After more than a year of hesitant bickering, German Protestants suddenly felt the whip of Reichs bischof Ludwig Müller, a square-headed, ruthless, onetime army chaplain picked by Catholic Hitler to be their Evangelical Shepherd...
...their first flush of sympathy for the buxom young widow of murdered Chancellor Dollfuss, the new Austrian Government gave her a pension, understood to be for life. Last week Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, devout, severe and thrifty, let Austrians know that if the Widow Dollfuss marries again her pension stops...
During his stay in China the devout were shocked to learn that His Holiness is no ascetic. Though Tibetan Lamas consider it virtuous to go hungry and a sin to eat flesh or fish, the Panchen Lama feasted regularly in Nanking on chicken, beef, mutton and those expensive Chinese delicacies, sharks' fins and hot sea slugs...
...Could he play with them? The kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more blessed than that which is touched by a child...
...dire presentiment which caused devout little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss to send his young wife and chubby children away to Italy with the words "You will be safe where you are going" (TIME, July 23) was fulfilled last week by a grisly and relentless fate...