Word: devoutely
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...views was finished, California Negroes were shifting from Stevenson to Kefauver in noticeable numbers. Said Franklin H. Williams, West Coast counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: "Stevenson uses high-sounding phrases, but they lack content." In Manhattan the New York Post, long a devout supporter of Stevenson, cried in a full-page editorial that his utterances on the discrimination issue had been "inadequate . . . fragmentary and uninspired." At Miami Beach, where the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council was holding its first meeting, other Stevenson followers expressed shocked horror. Obviously shaken, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther said...
...implacable enemy of lobbies and pressure groups of all kinds. Big-shot Republicans resent him; organization Democrats detest him; labor leaders denounce him as the foe of the workingman. His immigrant parentage arouses the suspicion of Mayflowering Americans. Protestants are skeptical of his Roman Catholic raising; devout Catholics deplore the fact that he is, in effect, excommunicated for marrying outside the Catholic Church. Even the schoolteachers of Ohio have reason to dislike him (he once vetoed a pay raise). He is a mystic who plays the violin or reads the poems of Robert Burns when he is moody, who keeps...
...courtship and engagement, they were married by an Episcopal minister because Jane, a "stubborn Methodist" by her own description, refused to be married in the rites of the Catholic Church. Although Frank was automatically barred by his marriage from receiving the sacraments of his church, Ma Lausche, a devout Catholic, proudly welcomed her daughter-in-law into the family with a bouquet of six dozen American Beauty roses...
Sherwood was a devout Republican, at least, while in college. In the 1916 election, he went all out for Hughes. On election night, he was so restless that he insisted on having several of us go into Boston to get the latest returns. The first returns assured Hughes of election, and when the bulletin board of the Boston Herald gave out what it thought was the result, Sherwood immediately organized a parade of victory. As the tallest man in Harvard, he became the leader. I can still see him, waving his long arms, shouting some doggerel that he may have...
...news outraged the devout. From their ghettolike quarters in Jerusalem, a band of extreme-Orthodox Jews sallied forth and plastered the city with proclamations calling down the wrath of God on anyone suggesting that the Rambam had been buried in "unworthy company." Hundreds of bearded and ringleted men picketed the tomb to prevent further sacrilege, fasted, paraded through the streets, recited psalms at the graveside day and night...