Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Science [April 17] has reached a new low. Of all the worthwhile science topics available . . . your "science experts" choose to waste the space on the bedroom habits of American homes. And of the 24% who sleep in pajamas, how many, pray, sleep in the tops only? And how many in the bottoms only? And "most women undress more slowly than they dress." This conclusion, gentlemen, is irrational...
Orthodox Russian and U.S. Communists, good atheists all, were shocked last week to hear Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen coolly announce that he prayed every morning for Russia's Joseph Stalin. Monsignor Sheen is professor of philosophy at Washington's Catholic University of America and an archfoe of Bolshevism. Speaking to some 2,500 members of Brooklyn's Catholic Teachers Association, the Monsignor said: "We can hate Communism without hating Communists." He added: "Every morning after Low Mass I pray for Joe Stalin and for Russia, as does every Catholic priest in the world...
Lanky, native-wise Lieut. Galen H. Sturgeon read a proclamation establishing military government, enjoining the natives to help the U.S. An interpreter shouted his echo. The natives, in brilliant ragbag costumes, listened, their long, brown faces expressionless. Then an old chief asked: "May we pray...
...best novels Virginia Woolf achieved the miracle that writers pray for. No other novelist possessed quite the same gift. Her readers were suddenly and magically transported into the heart of the life of her characters. It was a slightly disconcerting experience, like stepping into a large, friendly, glowing party, where you knew no one, and being made to feel at home - understanding their intimate talk, enjoying what they enjoyed, and, when they suffered, bearing with them as with people you loved...
...After getting into bed, 22% of husbands read, 12% talk to their wives, 7% listen to the radio, 3% pray, 2% smoke, 2% eat, 2% get up to close the window, 50% say they do nothing. Of the wives. 29% read, 11% talk, 8% listen to the radio, 5% pray, 3% think, 2% smoke, 1% eat, 1% get up to go to the bathroom, 40% do nothing. The average husband is ready for lights out after 19 minutes; the wife, after 14 minutes...