Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, whither she had journeyed to work & pray against repeal platforms by either political party, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement announced: "He will hardly feel at home in the jubilant company of outlawed brewers and Wet attackers of the Constitution. I've known John since he was a boy and his statement makes me very...
...Knoxville, Tenn. four Negroes were arraigned on a charge of having taken the head out of a murdered man's grave, planning to pray to it three hours daily for six days for directions how to find buried treasure. Said Arthur Bolden: "Somehows I felt I had to git that head and talk...
...Life League gives money to the indigent, gets employment for some, gives luncheon tickets "to unemployed, respectable, middle-aged women, unaccustomed to asking for aid," lodges men at the Salvorium (its rest home at Hastings-on-Hudson). Said Dr. Warren last week as morbid June 11 ap- proached: "We pray with them when they come, and we give them a Bible when they...
...whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron, San José? At his next visit Padre Martinez propped an image of San José in the pulpit, stood on the floor himself. While the sacristan circulated the money-box among the congregation, the Padre exhorted them to pray to San José. That saint did not waste time preaching to birds and fish, like San Antonio. He could do things-give the men more sheep, the boys beautiful wives, could wangle them through purgatory, into heaven. . . . At this point the sacristan, his money-box overflowing, intervened...
Told that this explanation made no difference, Dr. Gorgulov tried again. "A mystic force armed my hand," said he. "I had no reason at all to kill President Doumer. On the train from Monte Carlo to Paris I struggled against my idea of committing the crime. I prayed, even on the train. When I reached Paris I went to pray at Notre Dame. I begged God to rid me of this obsession. My struggle with myself lasted for two whole days. Then I drank an entire bottle of cognac. I was too intoxicated to remember what...