Word: pious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends has Aluminum Co. of America but some of the warmest are to be found among missionaries. The loyalty of this pious rooting section is as well-grounded in material interest as that of the Mellon family, which owns about one-third of Alcoa's stock. When Charles Martin Hall, inventor of the process which started the company on its monopolistic career, died in 1914, he left one-third of his $27,000,000 fortune to the American Missionary Society and another one-sixth for advancement of education in the Near and Far East...
Additional help to the pro-Leftists came from the pious Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, the white-thatched Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, who reached Valencia last week after a personal tour of the Basque provinces and other Leftist territory in Spain...
...Rodríguez, raised by Pope Pius XI from bishop coadjutor of the provincial diocese of Morelia to be Catholic primate of Mexico (TIME, April 5). Within the Cathedral were hundreds of clergy, wearing habits and vestments rarely permitted them in public during recent years, and thousands of poor, pious Mexicans, mostly Indians and mestizos...
Robert Thane was second son to a pious Abolitionist farmer in Indiana. His older brother went to the war and came back minus an arm. But Robert might have waited for the draft if his hero-brother had not stolen his girl from him. When that happened, he went off hoping for death at the first cannon's mouth. Long before he got into his first battle he learned that there was more to soldiering than stopping a bullet. A Creole camp-follower in Nashville did her share in dimming Diana's image. And in his first skirimish...
...Pious, energetic Dean Eldridge, who had never before written a hymn, set his words to the "Ode of Joy" from the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, directed it be sung "with exultation." First stanza...