Word: pious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bewilderment, when some thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim to a first-rate satirist. As it was followed with weaker tales, perfunctory travel books, a pious biography of Elizabethan Edmund Campion, and as Waugh became more interested in politics, his novels became more like those of an ax-grinding P. G. Wodehouse...
...Grady Lafayette Evers, 38, pious, T-total Baptist storekeeper of Dadeville and candidate for tax collector of Tallapoosa County, Ala. the morning of March 23, 1938, was exciting. A candidate for Governor of Alabama was to speak in Dadeville, and Storekeeper Evers had thought of a way to advance his own candidacy. He ordered for distribution to the crowd 2,500 booklets of paper matches from Advance Match & Printing Corp. in Chicago. On each booklet he ordered printed...
Southern California journalism is dominated by two aged titans, William Randolph Hearst (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald and Express) and Harry Chandler (Los Angeles Times'). A lonely liberal voice in the midst of this die-hard desert is the little Hollywood Citizen-News, published by a pious progressive from Minnesota, Judge Harlan Guyant Palmer. Publisher Palmer likes the New Deal, dislikes the utilities...
...well as divisional examinations. Next year some improvement could be effected, even though it is too late in the current season to benefit the Class of 1938. And the quarter hour can also be used by those who can find nothing better to do as an interim of pious prayer...
...asked outright for it, argued that its continued loss made the Poles hostile to Russia. Soviet authorities took him to the medical museum, showed him a body which he identified by reading his breviary's account of the martyrdom of Andre Bobola. Because the Russians feared pious demonstrations in Poland, Father Walsh was invited to take the body to Rome by any other route. He took it by way of Odessa, Constantinople and Brindisi. Suspicious lest the Bolsheviks might seek to switch bodies and thus hoax the Roman Catholic Church, Father Walsh took pains to pack the body against...