Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that hour President Roosevelt signed the Corporate Bankruptcy Bill. The exact minute of enactment was important because the new law instructed Federal judges to consider all bankruptcy petitions in the order received. The President wanted each & every prostrate U. S. corporation to have the same opportunity to rise and pray for cheap relief...
Eugen went to St. Stephan's Cathedral and heard mass, then walked to the palace of the Teutonic Order, then to another church to pray. When he saw troops of little girls in starched white dresses with paper flowers in their hair, it seemed a good omen. It was the first Thursday after Whitsunday, Vienna's traditional day for confirmations. Said he: "I have returned as a private person and I am glad to be able to spend the eventide of my life in the Fatherland." The Government announced that his reception in Vienna was thoroughly unofficial...
...their sins by visiting Rome's four great basilicas. For the rest of the Catholic world the Pope last week announced that until next Easter the faithful at home may gain the same plenary indulgence. They must visit three local churches and a Cathedral picked by their Bishops, pray for "the return of all dissidents to the unity of the fold of Christ," make solemn reparation for "the injury done His Divine Majesty" by the Godless...
...made friends with Him. To love Him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of His own heart." One of Dinesen's sophisticated elders quotes "that old saying which the peasants call the bachelor's prayer: 'I pray thee, good Lord, that I may not be married. But if I am to be married, that I may not be a cuckold. But if I am to be a cuckold, that I may not know. But if I am to know, that I may not mind...
...pray will God help us pass an examination when we have not studied...