Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chain of 342 variety stores. Genesco, which started as a shoe company and already has 1,500 outlets (including Manhattan's Bonwit Teller), nowadays is as flamboyant as its boss is unpretentious. A devout Baptist deacon, Jarman neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, often begins stockholders meetings with a prayer. He is noted for working his employees hard-and why not? How else will they ever acquire the 30 pairs of shoes that Maxey decrees every well-dressed man should have...
...thinks the pledge of allegiance ends with "Thank you for holding our flag," and can't be convinced that "Now we can have our refreshments" isn't the last line of a prayer...
...seven, another a boy of eight. The third is Brenda Abernathy, 16, who lives in a tumbledown shack. Her ordeal, rising out of the poverty of her father, is tougher than Dickie's, but Superintendent Sullivan was heartened by her presence, however reluctant. Said he in his opening prayer: "We ask you to bless the students and to encourage them to take advantage of an opportunity denied them for four years -one which, we pray, will never again be denied an American child...
...school-prayer resolution, introduced by Councilor Andrew T. Trodden, was passed unanimously on Sept. 16. Cambridge public now have of silent daily to replace the Bible reading that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court...
...meaning of his tapestries and paintings. He asked Rada to tell him the names of her children (Nikita, Aleksei and Ivan) because "the names of children acquire a special sound from the lips of their own mothers." John gave Rada a rosary because it reminded him "of the prayer my mother used to recite by the fire when...