Word: prayerful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When the air-raid warning sounds, I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-Third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit prayer. Then I take a wee drap o' whiskey to steady my nerves. Then I get in bed and pull up the covers. And then I tell Hitler to go to hell...
...that has allowed it to stray up to Little Sweden. I have a number of Minnesota acquaintances here in Cambridge, and they all take pleasure in taunting me and betting money on the big game with me. Naturally, I cannot admit that I believe the Gophers have even a prayer of a chance, so I always give even odds. Four times my efforts to supplement Fritz Crisler's prayers have been unavailing, and I have been rendered unto paupery...
...couple of grandparents, a host of aunts, and a pair of parents, I was brought up in the belief that Fielding II. Yost was the Almighty's special right hand man and that the Holy Trinity had something to do with the punt, the pass, and the prayer. Even if I were to do years of graduate work around Harvard I would never be able to efface from my memory the happy thrill I received long years ago when Henry Wood dropped a crucial pass in the Michigan end zone, giving the victory to the maize and blue...
...ever heard the Hanks story. He began to tell me what he had heard and as he was talking my Aunt Bettie came into the room. She said with indignation, "I'm not going to hear that story another time," and she went off to prayer meeting...
Griffith place-kicked the extra point to end the scoring, and the rest of the game settled down to a punt-and-prayer affair. George Waters, big gun of the Elephant backfield, was effectively bottled up by the sturdy Deacon defense...