Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others, forgive us our trespasses." The Morning Post loudly snorted: ". . . Current jargon of the platform . . . insensible to the dignity of the English liturgy. . . . Nothing could be better calculated to induce a spirit of national humility than the thought that such prayers could be authorized for use in public worship by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York." Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 67, Archbishop of Canterbury, is, as his prayer suggested, a practical as well as a pious man. He calmly observed that the Depression prayer had merely been authorized. It had not been officially ap pointed for general...
...Catholic, reactionary Munich. Small, sparse Adolf Hitler with the little mustache and the great, rasping voice had gained the moral and financial support of General Erich Ludendorff, once Germany's most brilliant commander, already beginning to suffer from the delusions that led him to take up alchemy and the worship of Woden. In Munich the Hitler Brown Shirts first appeared; the Hitler symbol, the ancient swastika; and the Hitler doctrine which included disfranchising Jews, repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles and Reparations; death to all Communists, and the abolition of department stores...
...many forces have converging to put football in its present position. Retrenchment is difficult and hardly probable. The American tendency for hero-worship, the principle of state education, the distortion of the idea of a university among the masses, the chauvinism of alumni, the expansion of the sport pages in newspapers and the special proclivity of the press for football stories--these and other causes have distorted the value of football and made it less a game than ever before...
They buried him near Canterbury in a stone chapel. And before his grave they put a little marble slab that men who past that way might worship on their knees. The stone chapel has sunk beneath the weight of ages, but out in a little field there is a grass grown marble slab with hollows where rain water lodges and where knees have been...
...biography is extraordinarily well rounded and refreshing, refurbishing every facet of a well dusted personality. Where others worship, Fay sits in admiration. Where some debunk, he is content to admit the frailty of man. "This man, who is not conspicuous because he possessed a just sense of proportion, threw in his lot with that of his country. His glory is the patrimony of civilization. Others are born eloquent; he was born legendary...