Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pulpit, which always finds it hard to condone the decadence of contemporaneous life, has now collected its adherents to pray for virtuous guidance in the April primary at Chicago. It has become traditional to speak of the seat of America's most recent demagogue as the haunt of light fingered but heavy handed artists, notables for whom the open spaces of Cook country breed only potential victims or competitors; but, in the opinion of the clergy, conditions have reached a parlous state since the last elections, and it is scarcely safer there for a private citizen than it would...
Indeed, to its spiritual leaders. Sodom and Gomorrah appear as naught beside Chicago, which is anathematized as the home of all that is corrupt, where vice abounds unchecked by conniving officialdom and the people are at the mercies of bombs and poisonous liquors. So the churchmen gather to pray that the growing pains of the turbulent city may be abated and that the ballot box may no longer yield a forced crop of magistrates. But yesterday's declaration of faith seems hardly the means by which to procure the metamorphosis at a time when gangsters scoff at the impotence...
...what, pray, has the excellence of Dr. Jefferson's preaching and his freedom "from garbled sensationalism" got to do with the remuneration he receives. Did St. Paul, St. Francis, St. Ignatius claim return from their saintliness...
...Comparison of Style of Le Notre with Earlier and Later Formal Garden Styles." Professor Pray, Robinson Hall...
...stopped walking at late twilight and went into the church. There were no lights on; no people were there to pray; the organ loft was empty. The tramp sat down and put his dirty finger on the keys, and there was music...