Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia-style show. At the opening, the band of the Governor General's Foot Guards played God Save the King and O Canada, packed up and was heard no more. Mackenzie King intoned the Lord's Prayer, stood for a 40-second ovation, then got down to business. There were no parading delegates, no partisan banners...
...October 1943), referring to restrictions imposed on the Pope, by the German occupation of Rome, expressed "to His Holiness my profound sympathy and that of multitudes of Englishmen who are not of his obedience." The second, written on Good Friday, 1944, was another message of sympathy that included a prayer for peace and that "the whole fellowship of Christ's disciples may be so guided by the Holy Spirit that we may together declare the Christian principles for the ordering of human life...
...Noriega joked, laughed and wove a crown of flowers as he walked; he wanted to thank the Virgin because his store had made so much money this year. Arnulío Garcia stepped along with a pocketful of Querétaro's famed opals and his own private prayer on his lips: "Dear Virgin, May I have better luck selling my stones in Mexico City than I had on my trip to Mazatl...
...Peter Marshall, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, said a prayer that was particularly suitable for Sunday, July...
Culture's Bastion. "Fred" Allen, 58 years old this week, is a tall (6 ft.), spare (130 lbs.) Bostonian whose modest prayer is that his mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only...