Word: devout
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...greet them, made a little speech about the sea as a character-builder, passed up & down the hall to confer his blessing. With that His Holiness thought the audience was over. Not so Midshipman Henry L. ("Hank") Muller of Leonia, N. J., fresh-faced, handsome son of a devout Catholic mother. Leaping up before the throne, he threw up his hands, cried: "All right, boys, let's have four N's, one Nay-vee and three Holy Fathers. Make it hot!" As the Pope blinked and "Hank"' Muller's arms flailed the air, there arose...
...same readiness and determination to exercise their power with utter ruthlessness and brutality in order to carry out that mission. No consideration of personal profit or glory ever entered Loyola's mind, and I believe the same can be said of Hitler." Such an expression was bound to anger devout Catholics who, for 400 years, have been obliged to refute the persistent notion that Ignatius Loyola, sternly militant founder of the Society of Jesus, expounded the doctrine that "the end justifies the means." First to protest to the Sun was Father Henri J. Wiesel, S. J., President of Loyola College...
Shocked British editors deplored Adolf Hitler's "gangster methods." Only head of a foreign state to comment was spry little Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss, an extremely devout Catholic. "Does it not now become apparent," he observed piously, "that when one leaves the path of Christian thought, the path of Justice, one enters a path of Error from which there is no turning back? . . . Does not the light at last dawn upon us that one can not make a people happy with violence...
...Oberlin, Ohio, at a meeting of the General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches, devout Statistician Roger Ward Babson presented results of his four-year study of church attendance. In 1,000 Congregational churches, said he, pews were 70% vacant. Only 42% of the communicants supported their churches by attendance or otherwise. Attendance varies inversely with the size of communities, the urban Eastern States averaging the lowest (36%) and the rural Southeastern States the highest...
That Delphic tip by the devout, erudite, horse-loving Marquess of Zetland, was less profound than it sounded. All it meant was that Colombo, Lord Glanely's unbeaten favorite, was named after the capital of Ceylon and that the two second choices were the Maharajah of Rajpipla's Windsor Lad and the Agha Khan's Umidwar. The man who had more real interest in the race than anyone else in the world thought so little of the Marquess's tip that he did exactly the opposite...