Word: pious
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...vigorous counterattack .by the young men of the ghetto. One day a gentile woman on her way through the ghetto paused to give a child a piece of candy. Instantly the ingelach (little boys) and mädelach (little girls) swarmed around her, squawling for candy. A pious Jew stopped in the narrow, stall-lined street, looked into her face, then shouted, "Don't eat the gentile candy. It's poisoned...
...three days in Boston last week, stocky dimple-chinned William Henry Cardinal O'Connell was a figure for pious adulation. His Holiness the Pope sent him a long letter of congratulation. At Holy Cross Cathedral the Cardinal celebrated high mass, faltered and wept as he addressed 3,000 people. Eulogies of him were delivered in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Syro-Maronite and Gaelic. Next day 20.000 children attended mass for him at Boston College. Then 30.000 people gathered in Fenway Park for mass and speeches by Senator David Ignatius Walsh, Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Mayor...
...slender, grey-haired conductor, a pious wealthy woman and a Dayton, Ohio church which had earnest hard-working choristers gave Westminster Choir its start. The conductor was Dr. John Finley Williamson, quiet son of a British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing...
...Baltimore Stadium, in commemoration of triple anniversaries-the 300th of the founding of Maryland and the first Catholic mass on Maryland soil, the 100th of the birth of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the 20th of Archbishop Curley's consecration as bishop. With good weather, 100,000 pious folk might be present to fill the stadium as it never had been filled before, and to participate in the largest U. S. mass since the Chicago Eucharistic Congress...
...then do they lie in time, the beginnings of human civilization? How old is it? . . . We have only to enquire, to conjure up a whole vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there are records which go back far beyond history's short memory, "pious abbreviations" of real events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples...