Word: pious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pious Hope. The situation cleared up within 48 hours when the full text of the Prime Minister's remarks showed that he had merely been uttering a pious hope, and had been forced to do so by a petition signed by 77 prominent Labor M. P.'s, asking total abolition of the dreadnought...
...equipment. In 1926 it absorbed a large maker of soda fountain equipment. Between 1908 and 1928 its current assets increased from $3,000,000 to $21,000,000. Although the stock (listed on the New York Curb) is rarely traded in, Scovill is regarded with respect by competitors, with pious awe by Waterbury businessmen...
...eyed Princess Ileana of Rumania ran her small yacht . on a sand bank in the Black Sea and waited, fogbound, fog-frightened, until rescued by a gunboat from Constanta. Last week, fog-free and thankful, she presented a handsome silver candelabrum to the many domed Cathedral of Constanta. Her pious inscription...
...sake, no advance news was given of the route that the King and Queen would take in their ride from Quirinal Palace to Vatican Palace. The huge oval of St. Peter's Square was kept free of spectators. From dawn on the day appointed, crowds of pious, enthusiastic Romans jammed the sidewalks of every street through which the royal pair could possibly pass, whiled away the long hours playing lottery games. Enterprising peddlers did a rushing business selling envelopes containing numbers shrewdly dubbed the "favorites" of the Pope, the King, the Queen. Many a Roman policeman unbent...
...with only a superficial knowledge of the subject; Professor Baxter's carefully modulated article dealing with U. S. relations with the U. S. S. R. in Monday's CRIMSON would appear an unprejudiced scholarly treatment of a controversial subject, for the writer draws no conclusions--but closes with the pious wish that the U. S. will act with wisdom...