Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Council (June 25). The Compact: "In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, loyal members of Church of do solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together to work for a just and cooperative world order. We pray that our nation shall help to establish an international organization for the bet ter ordering of the interdependent life of nations, the preservation of peace with justice, and the furtherance of the general good of all peoples. Unto this great task we commit our wills and our ways. In witness...
...which formerly belonged to old-time filmstar Colleen Moore. Said Atlanta's Catholic attorney Hughes Spalding to liquor dealer Mercer Harbin, who sold the farm : "Now, Mercer, I don't want you trying to cheat them." Replied Harbin: "No, sir, that old Abbot looks like he could pray me into Hell in five minutes...
...sake." Prayer should be brief "and with purity of heart, except it be perchance prolonged by the inspiration of divine grace." The whole Psalter must be recited each week, "for we read that our holy Fathers were strenuous enough to fulfil in a single day this task which I pray that we lukewarm folk may complete in the whole week." St. Benedict does not demand strict fasting but recommends that food and drink be cut to a healthy minimum...
...Kathleen Roche be saved, especially. All good Savoyards should pray that the brilliant coloratura-soprano, who has the lead in all the operettas, does not fall victim to the grippe that has already decimated the voices of Bertram Peacock and Florenz Ames, two of the three best in the male cast...
...Thomas Beecham suggested to modern composers that they become "more socially stupid" and "intellectually puerile." Lecturing in Manhattan, he feared that the "creative current ... in music is running dry. . . . Let's please pray that our creative artists . . . be outrageous, impractical, impossible . . . but . . . recover their pride in their craft...