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Novelist Arnow, who was born in Kentucky and taught school in Pulaski County for six years, handles the talk of the hill people and evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...
...Italians, Filipinos, Irish, Canadians and one priest from India. In the U.S. delegation was energetic, ruddy Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. The Japanese turned out in crowds that jammed streets, parks and station platforms. Non-Christians sang hymns along with their shinja (believer) brothers. Pious deputations waited at railway stations until late at night to catch a glimpse of the holy relic...
...veneration of saints' relics is a pious custom of Roman Catholics, though it dates back to pre-Christian times. According to the most common theological opinion, these objects, ranging from parts of the body to bits of things the saints used, are to be honored not for themselves but as tangible reminders of the saints...
...otherwise than it has pleased God to make me ... People expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work ... I believed in God and in Nature, and in the triumph of good over evil; but this was not enough for pious souls: I was also required to believe other points, which were opposed to the feeling of my soul for truth...
...best. But the familiar, arrogant zip had gone. Jersey City had heard him out when it went to the polls last week. That day, after 36 years of pious corruption and political tyranny, Boss Hague was toppled from his throne...