Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city not in Catholic Irish Free State but in predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland. The Cathedral on the hilly site of St. Patrick's buildings is no longer Catholic. Because it was long ago appropriated by Protestants, the Catholics had to build their own, which was not opened for worship until 1873, not consecrated until 1904. Even in 1915, when Joseph MacRory became Bishop of Down and Connor, there still were what quiet-loving Irishmen called "The Troubles"-stirred up by the Black and Tans...
Accordingly Abraham Lincoln designated April 30, 1863 as a day of "national humiliation, fasting and prayer." Citizens were to abstain from secular pursuits "and to unite at their several places of public worship and their respective homes in keeping the day holy to the Lord." Concluded the proclamation: "All this being done in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the divine teachings, that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high...
From this point on the worship of the franc dominates the book as it dominated the books of Balzac. Marlise gets an esthetic pleasure out of contemplating her swelling revenues. She cannot walk down a road of Pargny without reflecting that so much of her money is in such-and-such a field, or house, or shop, for she has become the fond owner of a grand assortment of mortgages. When Aime, the growing son, shows that he is a dreamer. Marlise contemptuously excludes him from any knowledge of her own little private banking business. Warned that Aime will...
...scorn the antics of Joe Penner, but the fact remains that that gentleman can be really quite a funny fellow. His present performance, however, is merely a succession of his stock phrases, strung together with the least possible justification of any absorbing continuity. As a result, only those who worship at the shrine of "You nasty man!" and "Don't never do that!" and can thrill to hear them repeated "in person" will get much enjoyment out of the headliner. The Boswell Sisters are a different story, doing their customary excellent work with a generous and well selected program...
...earthly visitants speak in character, as in these comments on their human hosts: "Unable to know good without bad, they congratulate themselves upon being the only creatures for whom both exist. Unable to live long, they claim a special beauty for their limited lives. Unable to conceive eternity, they worship time. Unable to avoid suffering and disappointment, they pretend that these are nobler teachers than felicity and truth. Unable to achieve anything better than the sorriest confusion in their minds, they chatter about the unfathomable variety of the world...