Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Answer to Prayer. At 80, short, bright-eyed Brother Hance, founder of the home and the St. Barnabas' Brotherhood, an Episcopal order, still seems as active as he was that day in 1896 when he quit his office job. In his history of the brotherhood he tells some of the things that happened next...
...Long Beach, Calif, decided to start a career as a holdup man, he knew just where to look for accomplices. He invited babyfaced, 17-year-old Muriel ("Pickles") Downs and 15-year-old Peggy Byrns to join him. Muriel's family were "strict" and made her go to prayer meetings twice a week, but her father had a .22-caliber target pistol and Peggy's divorced mother owned a 1935 La Fayette coup...
Next day Thakin Nu announced that he would be a hermit premier, living in a thatched bamboo hut on the grounds of his residence and leaving his regime of prayer and dedication only when state affairs are most demanding...
...mail volume in Philadelphia-next to Sears, Roebuck. "Promoters" are recruited to sign up and send in the annual dues of 25? each for a "band" of at least eight members. Part of the funds are used to help poor boys studying for the priesthood; most go to promote prayer to "Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal." Some promoters have enrolled more than 1,000 members (total membership runs into "several million") and the names of such medal recipients range from Pope Pius XII to Mae West...
...whether we like it or not U.S. and state laws are based on the concepts of the Christian religion." So spoke New Mexico's Attorney General Joe L. Martinez in arguing before the state supreme court that Lindrith High School pupils could legally say the Lord's Prayer in their classrooms and study "basic, non- denominational Christian concepts." Last week came a ringing war whoop from Indian-loving Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge in the Santa Fe New Mexican...