Word: pious
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...little hope of talking soldiers & sailors out of their thirst. Their strategy is to worry legislators into drying up local areas all over the country. Their favorite piece of legislation is the Sheppard Bill, now receiving the lackluster attention of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The bill combines three pious prohibitions: 1) of prostitution in camp areas; 2) of the sale of all liquor in camps themselves; 3) of liquor in areas around the camps...
...also pious. In his journal, he usually timed events by "tierce, vespers and compline, three of the canonical hours of prayer." Whenever possible he said his prayers in his cabin at these hours. Says Morison: "A decent formality has always been observed aboard ships at sea, even to our own day . . . any departure from the settled custom is resented by mariners. In Columbus' ships these formalities were observed with a quasi-religious ritual, which lent them a certain beauty...
...years, Dr. Mott has written himself frequent memoranda containing pious advice. At Cornell, for instance, Student Mott wrote: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society of cultivated women." His favorite maxim: "Let us turn stumbling blocks into steppingstones...
With a straight and pious face, the Senate and House extended the civil-service pension system* to all elected Federal officials: namely, the President, the Vice President-and themselves. To be eligible, members will have to ante 5% of their salaries, but Congressmen gave themselves until year's end to ante up-a rare privilege, especially for those not re-elected next November. They also decided on full pensions-as if they had been paying their 5% since their Federal service began...
...evidence he turned up made him less skeptical. Mrs. Carr was held while her fingerprints were sent to FBI headquarters in Washington. FBI reported that pious Mrs. Carr had a record dating back to 1891. She had done time in at least three prisons for big & little swindles. Shortly before she had married unsuspecting Mr. Carr, five years ago, she had been released from Washington State's Walla Walla. Six States were still looking for her. Some of her aliases: Mildred Marie Boniface, Mildred Sidebottom, Mabel Heavens...