Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phrases with which the President opened his letters were: "I am very happy. ... I am glad. ... I thank you. . . . I am happy. . . ." Only one Litvinoff letter opened on so cheerful a note. The exchange covered five points: 1) Recognition; 2) Propaganda; 3) Freedom of worship; 4) Protection of nationals; and 5) Debts and claims...
...issue of freedom of worship the President insisted on a long series of guarantees protecting U. S. citizens and U. S. pastors in Russia, which Comrade Litvinoff informed him are already contained in Soviet law, quoting the pertinent passages...
...close parallel with the fate of Christianity in Russia. No religion espousing spiritual individualism and political liberalism can hope to stand against the rush of the Religion of the State. At every turn, if it is true to itself, it will clash directly with autocrat and mobbism, with the worship of fore and the submission to irrationality. If Hitler survives, Protestantism will not. Whether or not a throwback to the myth of Wodin and Thor will succeed is a other matter; but even if these gods do not survive in name, their crude unreasoning spirit will. CASTOR...
...good beginning and look forward with hope based on the possibilities of exploiting nationalist feeling to the full and making the most of the existing cultural affiliations with Germany, home of fellow Nordics. And as in Norway and elsewhere, the Nazis' biggest card will be the Social Democrats' sentimental worship of Democracy, regardless of the growth of those pledged, and likely, to destroy it forever. CASTOR...
...pieces of the exhibition range in size from huge altars to small crucifixes. Vestments of the clergy, chalices, stained glass, mosaics, and other pieces which play a part in religious worship have all been gathered to depict the trend of modern Austro-Germanic church design. Models and photographs serve as a background...