Word: devoutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myself as entirely an American, but this makes me no less a devout...
...such a pleasure to read your cover story about a publicly articulate, liberal intellectual, devout Catholic wife-mother, that in humble gratitude my friends and I have formed a "Jean Kerr for Pope" Society...
...wanted of the army was free transportation to Africa to begin his career as a naturalist. The regiment went to India instead. When his application for transfer to Africa finally came through in 1926, Ionides became successively an ivory poacher, a big game hunter, a game warden, and a devout herpetologist. Piecing all these lives of a non-pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with all the imperious instincts of an aristocrat and not an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman. Snake Man neatly blends action...
Phrygia's hero-leader is dedicated, urbane and devout Mario Neroun, who carried his country to freedom and is now desperately trying to hold together its evenly divided factions. A footloose American historian. Wade Hendrix, finds himself deep in intrigue both of the political and the boudoir variety-Neroun has a lovely mistress named Poppy, who is a considerable trial to the dictator's Christian conscience. The characters represent every racial and religious faction-Yonarus, the fanatic chief of police who is also the secret head of the Christian terrorist organization; U.N. Ambassador Othoe, Poppy's aging...
...Connor, who from the time she left a church-run orphanage at 14 had known nothing but the life of a slavey, sometimes unpaid, in households selected by the nuns for Catholic respectability rather than the real virtue of charity. In telling the life of this simple, devout soul, her son avoids the curse of self-pity that afflicted even such masterly performers as Samuel Butler, Rousseau and Stendhal, not to speak of a swarm of modern confessionists. After writing his mother's life-partly, of course, as she told it to him-O'Connor has no pity...