Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes from a bourgeois family but has lived it down, Figl comes from peasant stock and tries to live up to it. He has a peasant's stubborn strength and stubborn limitations, along with the rural Austrian's strong belief in the efficacy of wine and prayer...
Dean Sperry's soft-voiced denunciation of non-liturgical sloppiness in the U.S.: "The Prayer Book, with its implicit pledge that . . . the offices shall be read decently and in order, is probably the greatest single source of attraction to non-Episcopalians. In the worship of the non-liturgical churches far too many of our transactions are accomplished in disorder, and occasionally approach aesthetic indecency. Popular taste in America has improved appreciably in recent years. . . . This improved taste penalizes churches, particularly in the great cities, which persist in the cults of ugliness, untidiness and sentimentalism...
...jail. Militiamen were posted outdoors. Tom was fitted with a five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited in for the event, were asked to sing his favorite hymn, Life's Railway to Heaven. A minister said a prayer. Tom cracked a joke. Water trickled out of a tank; the trap was sprung...
...ever been. Though he denies he was ever a Communist party member, he became the most brilliant apologist for the party line in the English-speaking world. A decade ago his Coming Struggle for Power was not the Communist bible, but it was, at least, the Book of Common Prayer of fellow travelers. In the U.S. he told an acquaintance: "Communism is really a movement for better plumbing...
...doctor attending one of the stricken Vance babies said: "The only treatment is to get all the liquids we can into her." After the liquids comes prayer...