Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring you what no other could ever have brought you: an entente which will be approved by 90% of the German nation, the nine-tenths who follow me. I pray you note this: There are in the life of peoples decisive occasions. France can today, if it wishes, put an end forever to the 'German Peril' which your children from generation to generation have learned to fear. You can remove this formidable mortgage which weighs on the history of France. This chance is now given to you. If you don't seize it, think of your responsibilities...
When he gives his second interview to the press (and let us pray that it maintains the miraculously high standard of the first; TIME, Feb. 17) let it be the occasion of an appended resume of his stormy career and some account of from whom he inherited his unique qualities of Royal Entertainer...
...letter, as you say, dear Cicero, does not blush. Wherefore, I write you. And I know, you being a philosopher and a man of imagination, will understand the license I take with Time. Pray, was it not one of your own countrymen who said: "Time does not go; we go?" But to come to my business...
...Your life, dear friend, is quite an open book! And now, but only because I love you, I tell you that some of your remarks to L. Lucceius, the historian, pleading that he speak favorably of you--even beyond the truth if necessary make a pretty immodest page. But pray, let not this trouble you. In this day we separate a man's character from his works. And you are at least an artist, dear Cicero...
...certain 40-year-old woman was taken first to a church, then to a Franciscan convent in Earling, Iowa. Apparently an energumen, she had exhibited symptoms of diabolical possession for a dozen years: she could not pray, take communion or even pronounce the name of Christ. Doctors had examined her, found her neither mentally nor physically abnormal. With the approval of the Bishop of Des Moines, the woman was made ready for exorcism by learned Father Theophilus, who upon 19 prior occasions had successfully made use of the Church's ancient rite, canonically available to all priests, for casting...