Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain bonnets or broad-brimmed black hats, but the use of the oldtime Quaker ''thee" and "thy" was common. No one quaked or trembled, as would once have been permissible, but there was some public weeping, notably by British Quaker Harvey, who sobbed after being moved to pray that he might become a "candle of the Lord"-a traditional Quaker expression. The meetings at which such prayers were voiced, in accordance with Quaker belief that the Lord furnishes inspiration,, for them, were the first in Quaker history at which portable microphones were used. Many a Friend found...
...Carmen, whom he married eleven years ago while on duty in Oviedo, and his daughter Carmencita, who is two years younger than Britain's Princess Elizabeth. Nine months ago the Bureau for Press & Propaganda issued an appeal signed by Dona Carmencita to all other nine-year-olds to pray for peace and papa's victory. Beyond that she has avoided the limelight. Dona Carmen Polo de Franco is patron of the Rightist Red Cross, frequently officiates at charity bullfights...
They are real people. They love-they laugh. They have codes of honor. They enjoy life just as do we. They have babies. They have their worries and their joys. . . . TOMORROW-Let's go to church and pray for them. Let's pray God to stop the march of that dread monster...
...ours. A frail, handsome, serious child, he was early accustomed to "plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash with regularity," duplicated for the Irish and Welsh the dirty deals his family had received...
Next day, although the heat of Cairo continued almost unbearable, King Farouk drove through the poorest quarters of his capital, again wildly cheered, to pray at the Mosque in which his father lies buried. On the third sizzling day His Majesty's Government set the program forward several hours, so that Field Marshal King Farouk reviewed the Egyptian Army in the cooler hours just after dawn. Every Egyptian town of importance had been equipped by the Government in recent weeks with a radio loudspeaker in the public square and the whole kingdom could listen for the first time...