Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With pomp and prayer and the services of no priests, the body of Boris III was borne from Alexander Nevski Cathedral into Sofia's streets. Behind a cordon of troops the people watched, sullen and restrained, as the funeral cortege rolled...
...Board of Film Censorship and a devout Catholic, forbade the showing of Stage Door Canteen unless a scene featuring Gracie Fields was cut out. His objection was not esthetic (he once remarked "I have no particular taste") but pious. The offending scene: energetic Gracie singing The Lord's Prayer...
...great German chorals whose sweep and power make them ideal for congregational singing. Many an old hymn has changed its tune. Hymns that were too high-pitched for most singers have been set in a lower key. Except in cases where the hymn is one of praise or prayer, Amen has been dropped from endings...
...year later, Eugenie made a pilgrimage to Africa. The night before the anniversary of Louis' death she spent in prayer at the spot where he had been killed. All night, curious but not hostile, the natives watched her where she knelt. "Toward morning," Eugenie wrote, "a strange thing happened. The flames of the candles were dimmed, as though someone had almost blown them out, and I wanted to ask: 'Are you there? Do you want me to go?' " As women do, she lived 40 years longer...
...blind obedience to their Emperor, the Japanese are seen in prayer before Shinto shrines. A U.S. flyer is executed by a firing squad while the radio yelps that the Mikado's cities have been "treacherously and inhumanly" bombed. Tiny children in uniform are shown being trained to fight. Tokyo, its streets a blaze of light, is obviously sneering at blackouts. Jap propaganda films "prove" that only force pays, that by its victories the nation already possesses sufficient rubber, timber and other raw materials to carry on a war that will wear out the rest of the world...