Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basically, said Writer Pattee, Latin America has two types of Catholicism: 1) "the black dress and the mantilla"-the "sentimental brand practiced in large measure by pious older ladies" and on Sundays by "the younger women, dressed more to please the younger men than God"; 2) the intellectual-the brand practiced by a minority aware of "the full significance of Catholicism as an 'ideology.' " In almost every Latin American land but Mexico, he concluded, the masses have "committed [virtual] apostasy...
Logan Pearsall Smith is the only son of a family of pious, prosperous Philadelphia Quakers. He was doomed to a career in the family bottle factory when he coaxed from his father an annuity on which he was able to live austerely, but without working, for the best part of his life. He at once set out (1888) for England, where he has remained (except for brief periods) ever since. In 1913 Logan Pearsall Smith became a British subject...
...statement prepared by its Commission on a Just and Durable Peace. The statement, drafted by Commission Chairman Dr. John Foster Dulles and polished by members at a two-day session in Philadelphia, summarizes the Commission's postwar program. Entitled "Christian Action on Four Fronts for Peace," its sound, pious exhortations included these highlights: ^ "We have what may be mankind's last chance. With the development of atomic power . . . the prevention of war is now the issue which transcends all other social and political issues."
Everything about the new tariff conflicted with pious Liberal doctrines. Items...
...call him, inherited from his hardy Scottish ancestors a scrappy spirit, a canny business head, and a set of literal Presbyterian morals. A bachelor until he was 45, Dr. Frank neither smokes nor drinks. As an undergraduate at Chapel Hill he was a rugged little St. George, who led pious forays against the roughnecks whose doxies plied their trade in Chapel Hill graveyard. He was nonetheless twice elected president of his class. In 1917, after taking an M.A. at Columbia, Frank Graham became one of the runtiest marines on record...