Word: pious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate English poetry. His lines are at once instinct with poetic feeling and accurate as paraphrase. The stanza overflow is capably handled and the meter admirably suitable. It seems that wherever Mr. Ageo prints his work the level of the periodical is thereby raised, and it is with the pious wish that we mav hear more from him in these transalpine wastes that we conclude these catalogue of fatuities...
...subjects to proclaim at Tirana a new Holy Synod of Albania, with Archbishop Bessario Javani as its President. In Constantinople the Most Holy Patriarch Basil of the Greek Orthodox Church was incensed, last week, to the point of anathematizing the new Albanian Synod. Soon he unfrocked with awful and pious curses both Albanian Archbishop Javani and his ecclesiastical accomplice the Archimandrite Tjamzi of Berat...
Indomitable Divines. Scottish clerical dignitaries vigorously protested, last week, against the scheduled date of the British General Election, May 30. They pointed out that from May 21 clear up through Election Day the minds of pious Scots will or ought to be engrossed in following the proceedings of the annual assembly of the National Church of Scotland. Campaign speeches at such a time could scarcely please God, reasoned the Scottish divines, and in both Edinburgh and Glasgow devout headline writers wrote...
...Then the pepper pyre was lighted. Thick clouds of oily, acrid, pepper smoke poured up to envelop the steeple, blind, gag, choke. Passed ten minutes. Then the bolts of the church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio...
Huddled close together for warmth in the pews of the village church at Buchau, pious farmer folk heard their beloved pastor explain from the pulpit, last week, why Europe has been visited with the coldest winter of the century...