Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese are not quite so confident that the Filipinos are awaiting a savior. Said the broadcast: "The Filipinos are a very superficial people, thoroughly demoralized by the American example. Nevertheless the Filipinos have several characteristics in common with the Japanese. They are fairly pious. When they make money, they prepare magnificent, costly coffins for their parents, even while they are alive, thereby comforting their declining years. If we Japanese can develop Filipino filial piety in other directions, there is some hope that the Filipinos may become a decent people...
Madeline's pious, sad-looking mother had come from Stillwater to hold Madeline's hand; and old, lean Judge James Springer had also come from Oklahoma to help defend an old friend's flashy little daughter...
...Virgins, mournful of mien, with inclining haloed heads and slim-fingered hands. These paintings represented the oldest and most continuous art tradition of Europe-a tradition whose source was Byzantium ("icon" is from the Greek eikon, "image"). Icon painters of the 11th to 17th Centuries, "humble and mild and pious" (as a 16th Century Church Council enjoined them to be), painted as reverently as they prayed, "remembering the work of the earlier painters, following the best models." Only in the last dozen years have Westerners appreciated the splendor of Holy Russia's painting. It was the Soviet Government, despoiler...
...conservative who ran the Epicerie Danton, scrimped so that his son could learn German and become a big salesman some day. Result: because he knew German, young Corre was sent to the Maginot Line, killed. ^ Odette kept the butter & eggs store and wore green-black clothes and looked pious and demure. "Actually she was an infidel and a Socialist." The milk she sold was bluish and watery; her eggs "bore unmistakable evidence of having been near hens...
Faith & Works. For this favorable situation, pious Nazis thanked their landlubber Führer, who had built ships when Goring was bawling for more airplanes and Guderian for more tanks. But they also thanked a short-legged pouter pigeon of a man named Erich Raeder...