Word: meekness
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Some expressed a desire for the complete prayer beginning, "Gentle Jesus meek and mild" used by the children of Publisher Farrar...
Said Publisher Farrar: "It's a new kind of censorship to me." His two children, John Jr., 4½, and Alison, 2½, he admitted, kneel each night and say "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...
Other States. In Alabama (estimated crop: 1,288,000 bales) Governor Benjamin Meek Miller frowned on legislative remedies to up cotton prices while in North Carolina (estimated crop: 715,000 bales) Governor Oliver Max Gardner turned his back on the South and appealed to President Hoover for a special cotton session of Congress on the ground that the problem was national and international. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma (estimated crop: 1,254,000 bales) talked about a stiff tariff on long staple cotton, vaguely praised "uniform laws...
...friend of Lenin, a prime voice of British Socialism. The train pulled in; a band struck up "The Internationale." The Muscovites roared: "Hail Bernard Shaw!" Troops swung into protecting lines down which Mr. Shaw marched, accompanied by Lady Astor and a group of other British notables including her meek husband...
...Shaw's meek wife stayed at home after Lady Astor promised to take good care of him. †Later last week workmen repairing the Kremlin came upon a secret vault containing more Tsarist gold and jewels...