Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seeking sanctuary against political or criminal punishment. They include several former Greek lunchroom proprietors who fled the clatter of U.S. civilization. They live in two kinds of monasteries: cenobite (communistic) and idiorrhythmic (allowing private property, which reverts to the monastery). Many of them lead a truly monkish life of prayer and Church scholarship, a shabby life without bathing or toothbrushing, with a meatless diet and only brief snatches of sleep, because "sleep inflames the body." They live on contributions and on the making and selling of wine, farm products, religious paintings and trinkets. Some are so ignorant or unworldly that...
Japan is sending its No. 1 churchman, Bishop Yoshimune Abe, and its No. 1 Christian, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, to a peace parley with U.S. church leaders at Riverside, Calif, next week. Its purpose as stated by the Japanese: "Prayer and to explore ways to preserve peace between Japan and the United States...
...seeming effort to undercut the effect of these charges, the Nazis countered with the proud assertion that a new Catholic prayer book for the first time includes special war prayers, including one for "victory in the German struggle for liberty." But Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry slipped up, missed the obvious inference-that for the 19 months of World War II Germany's Catholics have been praying for peace, not for victory...
...packed with nearly 400 members, biggest House in months. Result: For Sunday theaters-136. Against-144 (100 did not vote). High up in the gallery sat beaming Secretary Henry Martin of the Lord's Day Observance Society. Chortled he: "We believe that this victory . . . is an answer to prayer. They call us killjoys. Ha! ha! We are kindle-joys...
...years Lumberman MacMillan has been the world's No. 1 exporter of lumber. But, at 55, success has not smoothed his edge. To a muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them." He answers his own telephone with a gruff "MacMillan speaking." Once at a formal dinner there was a hushed lull while the diners waited for someone to say grace. The silence was broken by his boom: "MacMillan speaking...