Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Purity & Prayer. When the Army tried to clamp down a tight censorship on the whole story, the press naturally played it up as a "Mystery Epidemic." Actually, the babies had been stricken by a disease known and feared by every mother. Called epidemic infant diarrhea, or summer diarrhea, it is not uncommon in hospitals and other institutions where newborn infants live in close contact...
Then Dr. Mildon went fast into a short sermon. Its catch phrase: "New men for a new world." "And now," concluded the parson, "please join me in a short prayer." He prayed in simple, informal language, thanked God for the safe return of servicemen and hoped for the spiritual safety of mankind...
Anne Boleyn's Psalter-the one she carried to the scaffold- was stolen from Hever Castle-in Edenbridge, England, by burglars with a sharp sense of history. Other purloined items: Husband Henry VIII's signet ring, Queen Elizabeth's prayer book...
...Humor. "Humor is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. . . . The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence.. . . Laughter is ... not only the vestibule of the temple of confession but the no-man's-land between cynicism and contrition...
...Primitive art," explained Chagall, "already had a technical perfection toward which the present generation is striving, now playing tricks of sleight of hand, now falling into stylization. I compare .this formal baggage to the Pope of Rome sumptuously vested beside Christ naked, or to the lavishly decorated church beside prayer in the open fields...