Word: devoutely
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...Devout, Bible-reader President Coolidge typed out on little slips: "I do not choose. . . ." Said the New York Times: "The editorials of leading newspapers which have given him loyal support and lately have been not so friendly . . . were a factor. . . . Copies of the Springfield Republican came here last week. . . ." Said the Boston Herald: "The Springfield Republican which has been the President's Bible, came here last week with an editorial entitled, 'A Sullenly Accepted Administration,' pointing out how President Coolidge would be received if ... reelected. This . . . had some influence on the President...
...apology for publishing (with many another periodical) announcement that Mrs. Smith (the whilom Katharine Kalbig) is a Roman Catholic (TIME, May 16). Mrs. Smith's latest statement: "I am not a Catholic but on the contrary have been baptized in the Baptist Church, of which I am a devout believer and an active member and attendant...
...Puig Casauranc pronounced a brief, non-religious address, alluding matter-of-factly to the future life. This was deemed fitting because of the anti-religious views and policy of Señor Calles and his Cabinet (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, et seq.). Because Señora Calles was a devout Roman Catholic, persons of that faith rejoiced to hear that a priest had performed appropriate last rites before the body left Los Angeles...
...written of the God of the Bible as "this irate old party . . . this touchy Jehovah . . . who preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage,* who sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks" (TIME, Jan. 24). Edward J. Murphy, devout Roman Catholic, prosecuted for the Crown with vigor, called Atheist Sterry's writings "scandalous, impious, blasphemous, profane and indecent." Judge Coatsworth, Sunday School Superintendent, charged the jury: "Nothing is more sacred to us than our religion. . . . We look upon the Bible as the basis of every good...
...Lord Jesus Christ, no one has ever exercised so salutary and dominant an influence as the Virgin Mary on society, on the family, on the individual. . . . Queen of angels and saints [she] stands 'face to face' before God." He speaks of her as the "mirror of God," urges devout Catholics to pray...