Word: blessedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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So is President Calvin Coolidge. Indeed Death has taken most parents of living Presidents. Singularly blessed, therefore, is 70-year-old President Michael Hainisch of Austria-for last week a movement to re-elect him for a third term was set on foot by his Mother.
I (name), now in the presence of Almighty God the Father, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the saints, sacred host of Heaven, to you my Ghostly Father, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the pontification of Paul...
* Other pious beliefs: no house in which blessed palms are kept will be struck by lightning; holy water will disperse devils; those whose throats are blessed on the Feast of St. Blase will be immune to throat diseases. Pious beliefs are not to be confused with Articles of Faith.
Protestants might scoff, or heretics sneer. The slant eyelids of infidels might even lower in sedate winks. But General Umberto Nobile clung to the medal as tangible proof that his pious deed of dropping a large Papal cross on the North Pole (TIME, June 4) has found highest favor in...
Blessed and congratulated, General Nobile eventually told correspondents that he carries in his head a number never known to man, a number which may prove to be the crowning achievement of his expedition, a number which he described as "the horizontal component of the magnetic field."