Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that they are hard-boiled pros (getting from $4,000 to $15,000 a season), the players have a team spirit like a prep school squad's. Led by Team Captain Lou Saban, the Browns huddle in the dressing room before a game and pray that they will do their best and enjoy the competition. They finish with the Lord's Prayer. It is not on Coach Brown's orders: he is never present at the praying and does not require it. But, says he, "I'm a God-fearing...
...every time. But a stern talk from Ma Robinson put him out of business. She was, and is, a fervent Methodist who can be volubly graphic on the subject of hell. (A few weeks ago, when the Dodgers were not doing so well, Jackie wrote to his ma: "Quit praying just for me alone, Ma, and pray for the whole team...
...cheeked Dr. Watson's second try; he polled 75,000 votes in 1944. He opened his 1948 campaign last week with a barnstorming tour of dry Kansas, flying in his own plane. He hoped to do better this time. Said he: "If the church people vote like they pray and if the prohibitionists stand fast . . . I will be the next President...
...letter to the New York Herald Tribune, a reader suggested a prayer for landlords, taken from the Book of Common Prayer of England's Edward VI, who died in 1553: "We heartily pray Thee to send Thy Holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds and pastures of the earth, that they, remembering themselves to be Thy tenants, may not rack or stretch out the rents of their houses or lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines or money after the manner of covetous worldlings, but so to let them out that the inhabitants thereof...
...Elgin, they tell how one day Dick Clelland, the barber, lost his temper. Clelland, tired of having boys mess up his shop window with dirty fingers, rushed out, razor in hand, and kicked a boy who was waiting for a bus. Prince Philip turned and asked: "Pray, sir, for what do I receive this kick?" (At least, that is what Morayshiremen, who know how a Prince ought to talk, say Philip said...