Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Springfield last week had fun. They squished happily through the straw-covered mud of the midway, saw a cow sculptured in 500 Ibs. of butter, ate prodigious quantities of hot dogs, drank gallons of sickening sweet orangeade, bought ''chameleons from Cuba," had the Lord's Prayer engraved on pennies, and knowingly appraised prize livestock...
...dawn a soberminded flock of Christians, Buddhists and Shintoists gathered among the ruins at Hiroshima's Jisenji Temple for silent prayer and meditation. But thousands of their fellow citizens carried on as if the first anniversary of the atomic bomb were Rodeo Day in the Texas Panhandle. They jammed movie houses to see special anniversary shows, stampeded in the city's makeshift department stores to take advantage of bargain sales in Hiroshima-made products. The day ended with a bangup ritual lantern dance on the grounds of a Shinto shrine...
Under Naziism, the soul of Germany all but died. Under the occupation, its failing spark has yet to be blown again into flame. Lest it go out altogether, the Rev. Geoffrey P. Druitt, British Assistant Chaplain General, last week delivered a message, almost a prayer, to the British forces in Germany...
Clementine & Alice. Moscow was a little behind the times. Soviet teen-agers were still busy with Chattanooga Choo-choo and Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. Russia's strangest importation from the West was the U.S. Marines' Hymn, sung to the tune of Clementine (which might give the Russians a dangerously erroneous idea of the Leathernecks). Latest favorite: the American Soldier's Song, which most Russians believe is constantly crooned by G.I.s; it is a speeded up version of There Is a Tavern in the Town, in which the tavern has become the scene...
...Connolly's less agreeable qualities include a tone of pettish portentousness into which he falls when writing of philosophical or religious matters that he can taste but cannot fathom. At Eton little Cyril preserved a pious air in chapel, though reading his blackbound Petronius instead of the prayer book; in more adult ways he has continued...