Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benedict XV's Special Prayer for Peace...
Signals and Scissors. Whistling, humming, singing and talking were forbidden. Once when the Bishop tried breaking the no-talking rule, as everyone did, he got "a good wigging from the head warden." Nevertheless he managed to send out word that he would say daily Morning and Evening Prayers, invited his neighbors to join him silently at those hours. He tapped signals on the walls to announce the opening and closing of services. On Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water...
...died last February in the sinking of an army trans port in the North African campaign. He and three other chaplains (a Methodist, a Roman Catholic, a Jew) gave their life belts to soldiers who had none, were last seen kneeling together on a canting deck in their final prayer...
Lucile Turner calls her type of singing "makin' glory." Thumping out her own accompaniments at the piano, she sings about love, Jesus, "pleasurin' my man," cotton fields, the thousand and one details and incidents of the Southern Negro's life. Sometimes she intones a prayer or a sermon in graphic Negro imagery...
...Uncle Robert." Raised on a plantation in Virginia's south-side Brunswick County, Lucile Turner first learned about Negro music from "Uncle Robert," a colored houseman who took her as a child to Negro prayer meetings. Later, after a fashionable private-school education, she studied music at Boston's New England Conservatory. For years she so thoroughly steeped herself in Negro music that she could create it as naturally as the Negroes themselves...