Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor and Mrs. J. S. Pray are inviting all students of the School of Landscape Architecture and their wives to a Christmas Night Reading. The entertainment will take place at Professor Pray's home on Saturday at 8 o'clock...
...Juan Diego, shirtless Mexican Indian, was trudging through Guadalupe, few miles from Mexico City. Suddenly he received the impression that a fair young virgin, the Mother of God, stood before him. Falling on his face he prayed. Rising up he succeeded in convincing others of the verity of his impression. Since then (1851) thousands, tens of thousands and finally as many as two hundred thousand worshipers at a time have come to pray at the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe...
...hopes of the more liberal element of the Church for such a rapprochement were feelingly expressed to newsgatherers last week by Cardinal Vannutelli, on the eve of his 90th birthday, in earnest quavering speech: "Mussolini is the man chosen by God to direct Italy to her glorious goal. I pray for him daily. . . . Negotiations for the reconciliation of the Church and State are making gratifying headway, and we are confident that a settlement may be reached on a basis of justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent...
Lily Sue. "Maw, if yer never prayed before, pray now, while I ride to save 'Duke' from the drunken lynchers." Clip-clop, clip- clop-the heroine's off-stage horse arrives in time for a happy ending. The popularity of the cowboy thriller is revived by Willard Mack, dean of melodramatists. Hokum it is, and oldfashioned, but, none the less, it keeps the onlooker clutching, crinkling his program throughout. Beth Merrill, who looks like Jeanne Eagels, plays the gawky pride of the prairies, rolls out her pointed conversation with a pleasant, if not authentic, Western drawl...
Twilight and harvest moon, he too would pray...