Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider ourselves no longer a nation but a religious community, and therefore expect neither a return to Palestine, nor a sacrificial worship under the administration of the Sons of Aaron, nor the restoration of any of the laws concerning the Jewish State...
...come into the midst of this city, which, in the minds of most Americans, has consecrated itself to the worship of Wall Street," announced the political priest, "I come not to criticize or berate individuals. I come to lift my voice on the doorsteps of a modern Temple of Mammon only to condemn a system of private money control...
...half men. So to start clean he left Manhattan, went to the Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass., where he talked to trackmen, wrestlers, footballers. Dancing, he argued, was originally a male prerogative, forbidden to women. Primitive men have always danced as a natural part of their worship. The young athletes who followed Shawn to his farm in the Berkshires knew that they would often be ridiculed, that they were entering a life which, as Shawn said, "is like joining a church." The training was more tiring than football. For four hours each morning they lunged and pranced...
Jehovah buried, Satan dead, do fearers worship Much and Quick...
...flowering of the old man's hopes in his grandson, their great worship of each other, the ultimate disgrace which Luke brings on the whole family, are all skilfully and sympathetically presented. The book is full of rich character-interest--in Luke the author creates a figure who is real, tangilo and pathetically endearing. More fine novels by this young Englishman may be justly expected; he has here demonstrated an inspired knowledge of human nature and a thoroughly adequate technique...