Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young ones always fast and pray, A season," Lapa would declare. "This holy nonsense does not stay...
Fierce-mustachioed, fiercely anti-Communist Author Guareschi* does not try to plumb the curious complex of politics, economics and emotional contradictions that causes millions of Italians to pray devoutly to God. confess to their priests, and cast their ballots for Communists. To solve this dilemma in fiction would be to do more than Italy has accomplished in reality. Some of the 25 sketches in this volume, like those in its two predecessors (The Little World of Don Camillo, Don Camillo and His Flock), show the marks of haste; all were written originally for a right-wing humorous weekly that Writer...
...Glory be to God!" cried Preacher Poole into his microphone. "Pray for Sam Bell. Save Sam Bell. The Devil can only go so far. There'll be no jukeboxes in heaven." The faithful groaned and flung themselves to their knees; their own amplifiers rushed to meet Satan over Saunders Street with a full-throated Leaning on the Everlasting Arms...
...Pray for Sam Bell. Across the street in the Windmill, Sam Bell and his customers listened for several nights with mounting distaste. "It got louder and louder," says Sam. "I couldn't even hear the girls when they called the orders." Finally, one night last week, one of the Windmill's customers made a suggestion, and Sam Bell suited action to the word...
...Pray for husbands for their daughters...