Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evade the fight for freedom, opposition to conscription reached strange extremes : In Sherbrooke, Gunner Lucien Rocheleau testified that Mrs. Theodore Provencher had told him to wrap a religious, picture in blue silk (color of the Virgin Mary), hang it around his neck. Then she had given him a special prayer to read on nine consecutive nights, finally some pills to make him sick and insure his discharge from the army. For these services his mother paid Mrs. Provencher $16. The Mounted Police charged...
...program for this evenings concert will include two duets from Baroque cantatatas by Buxtehude and Schutz, two choruses from "II Matrimonio Segreto" by Cimarosa, the "March of the Peers" from "Iolanthe" by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, "Glorious Apollo" by Webbe, and "Prayer of Thanksgiving," a Netherlands folk song...
Sunday at half past two the bells rang out. Pious Neapolitans, flocking to learn the cause, were elated to hear that the miracle of the liquefaction had finally taken place, 22 hours after the first prayer...
...Gandhi, editor of the Hindusthan Times, did not feel optimistic. His father, he said, scorned medicines, relied for recuperation on massage, water and vegetables, and spiritual resources "beyond the conception of the Western world." But the old man was indomitable: at Parnakuti he climbed 70 steps, led a household prayer meeting on an open terrace, asked for war news: "Let me know what is going on around me. If I am to die, let me not die an ignorant...
...Jersey. The New Jersey contribution was by Warner Bros., whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that was in him was 3 ft. 6 in. Jumpers burn out young...