Word: devoutedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devout or not, thousands of U.S. readers have plowed through the books of Trappist Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain, The Waters of Siloe) with wondering attention. What makes a man give up the world? What is his life like when he does? Monica Baldwin's I Leap Over the Wall is Merton in reverse: the story of a British nun who went back to the world...
Monica had learned to handle a drink and even "flung my bonnet over the windmill and accepted a cigarette." Except that she had trouble balancing herself on high heels, the nun had become as much a woman of the world as she cared to be. At present, still as devout as when she first entered the convent, she is living in the country...
...Oxford Street in Cambridge, Mass. lives a sibyl, a priestess of science. Her devotees take their problems to her as devout ancient Greeks took their insolubles to Delphi. She is no mumbling, anonymous priestess, frothing her mouth with riddles. Her name is Bessie*; she is a long, slim, glass-sided machine with 760,000 parts, and the riddles that are put to her and that she unfailingly answers concern such matters as rocket motors, nuclear physics and trigonometric functions...
...during both world wars, always managed to make a comfortable living. Recently, while he held down a $5,200-a-year job on the State Board of Equalization, he and May also operated a "Hobby Center," which last year grossed $56,000. But for a couple of decades, quietly devout Donald Foster has been thinking that he would like the cloistered seclusion of a monk's life. "The more I thought about it and talked to May," he explained when his decision was finally made, "the more I kept realizing that we aren't created just for time...