Word: impiously
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...Cambridge winter cannot restrain the university from breaking forth into fresh excitement. The newest panic is that of red "circles". Opponents of the New Order are already punning violently upon "circle" and "square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist League will be welcomed...
...part is that of an Apache leader in the Paris slums who leads her dedecorus dragoons to the battle front at the first call of war in 1914. There is, of course, the handsome American newspaperman. Newspapermen are always handsome on the stage, just as actresses are chronically impious in the headlines. The rumble of drums and the whispers of intrigue dwindle in time for American-Apache nuptials. The picture is distinctly in the upper strata of current cinema production...
...through the book runs the threnodic tone of something being wrong with the Church. "It is impious to think that heaven interposed in the affairs of humanity to produce that ridiculous mouse, the modern curate. No teacher in the history of the world ever occupied a lower place in the respect of men. . . . He figures with the starving children of Russia in appeals to the charitable as a object of pity. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed but the shepherd also looks up from his pit of poverty and neglect, as hungry as the sheep, hungry...
...Jehoram, king of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat, and seventh king of the line of David, married Athaliah, daughter to Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands...
...primitive races of man. You recollect how Sir Henry Maine says that all early codes were marked by an inflexible rigidity, because their rules were thought to have come down from Heaven itself. To most football players the suggestion of a radical change in the game seems about as impious as to ask a Priest of Menu to say his prayers without washing his feet...