Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only some 500,000 of U.S. Jewry's 4,770,000 belong to Reform Judaism-but most well-known American Jews are among them. They look on Judaism as a religious rather than as a racial concept. Few of them call their house of prayer a synagogue or go to worship there on Saturday. Instead, they call the synagogue a "temple," worship on Sunday like Christians, ignore the Mosaic dietary laws...
...soft light on the dirty sidewalk, the modest little brass sign--"The Crimson." Vag turned in at the door, with a mental prayer that none of the editors would forget to be there. They hadn't: Cleveland, Brookline, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Cincinnati and New York--what a joyous progeny of Uncle Sam! And there, hanging from the chandelier grinning inanely was Inchball, good old Feather stone cough, who never failed to wing his way from Shangri-La for this sad, glad occasion. Vag felt a sudden exuberance, even before the punch was made; he was amoosed though confoosed...
When the Council's executive committee met to draft the message, some of the more militant denominational representatives wanted a prayer for victory put into the statement. This was omitted when others pointed out that in their similar statements at the start of World War II the British, French, Canadian and German churches had included no such prayers...
...Christian good will toward those among us whose origin was in nations with which our country is now at war." > "To strive for national policies in conformity with the will of God, rather than to seek the divine sanction for a human purpose." > "To maintain unbroken the fellowship of prayer with Christians everywhere...
George Bernard Shaw, Herbert George Wells, Thomas Stearns Eliot Walter De La Mare, 14 other men & women of letters pleaded with the British Government to let the publishers have more paper, on the ground that otherwise "the condition of letters in this country will be quickly past prayer...