Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody,* Groton School headmaster, who has given diplomas to Franklin Roosevelt and his sons, the sons and grandsons of Theodore Roosevelt and 1,400 other high-bred U. S. youths. The President's proud face was humble, his head bent, as old Dr. Peabody intoned a prayer: "We make our humble supplications unto Thee for this Thy servant Franklin, upon whom is laid the responsibility for the guidance of this Nation...
...them suddenly quit their machines, bowled past a few protesting foremen, paraded through the shops and streets with placards reading: "We're for George F."; "George F. Can't Be Wrong"; "Join Up-No Union." Protestant preachers, Catholic priests, Salvation Army chaplains had special prayer meetings for George F.'s recovery. Two days before election, word came that George F. was feeling better. Election day, after George F.'s workers had voted from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., NLRB tellers counted the ballots in the George F. Pavilion. That night good news went...
...Prayer. No one in British politics ever mistook him for the ordinary kind of politician. He was patently of a different breed, a law-abiding, churchgoing, public-spirited English gentleman of high birth. Such have their uses in politics. In 1922 he got his first Cabinet job as President of the Board of Education, first under Prime Minister Bonar Law, and then under Prime Minister Baldwin; in 1924 he became Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries...
...regular army. He writes with authority and irony of the military mind ("[the general] looked on the war as a pitiful era of confusion for the army, a lapse that must never recur . . ."), with intimate affection of the quieter moments of routine ("Like the Lord's Prayer, you had it all by heart . . . feet, head, belly, legs; nearside, offside, eyes, nose, dock; hoof-pick, body-brush, dandy-brush, sponge, stable-rubber, wisp . . . 'Stables' hour was as sacred as the twenty minutes before the drawing room door opened and nurse came in to say that...
...four of his successors, unceasingly protesting their "despoliation," remained in voluntary imprisonment until the Lateran Treaties of 1929. They and their partisans - to Roman society, "Blacks" as opposed to the "Whites" of the Court - would no more have thought of visiting the Quirinal than of going to a Methodist prayer meeting. Until last week. Then, as part of a beautifully staged "reconsecration" of the Lateran Treaties, Pope Pius XII paid a history-making call on the present tenants of the Quirinal...