Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide-mouthed black men attacking Negro lynchings. On street corners hot-blooded white men gathered, muttered curses on Mr. Darrow, "damned Yankee" agitator. At Negro schools, able Lawyer Darrow repeated his speeches to the "new Negro." Klan circulars said he said: "Resist your white masters. ... I see you pray, but to what good? . . . Your God must be white considering the way he treats you. No doubt there will be a 'Jim Crow' law in your heaven. I heard you sing 'Sweet Land of Liberty...
...Christ, no one has ever exercised so salutary and dominant an influence as the Virgin Mary on society, on the family, on the individual. . . . Queen of angels and saints [she] stands 'face to face' before God." He speaks of her as the "mirror of God," urges devout Catholics to pray...
...archbishop gave instructions how to perform self-marriage without benefit of priest: "Prepare in your house an altar. Place upon it some image of your devotion. Upon your bended knees make the sign of the cross and recite the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria and the Credo. Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and give thanks to God. Then standing before the altar the bridegroom will say 'I - before God and witnesses declare I wish to receive for my wife Señ0rita -as the Holy Roman Catholic Church prescribes.'" The girl says the equivalent...
...press. Miss Millay's libretto was superb: "sensible and singable," quaintly flavored. Only the gum-chewers' Daily News, whose music critic signs herself "Debutante," found the opera lacking in distinction. She falsely announced: "Alas! Those who came . . . may not have scoffed but they certainly did not remain to pray...
...When I come into a meeting sometimes I feel just like a sponge, dripping with honey and milk. I just give everything I've got. I'm weak when I come out. But I go and pray to Jesus and get all charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...