Word: devoutness
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...heavy diet of Fair Deal politicking with such flamboyant series as "The V-Girls of 1954," "Unwed Mothers" and "Walter Winchell." At the same time, he wooed New York's big Jewish population with its pro-Zionism and coverage of minority problems. Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff, a devout Democrat, believes that politics is one major reason for the paper's new success. Says she: "We are the only 'liberal' [i.e., proDemocratic] daily in the city...
...colonial police officer in Sierra Leone, British West Africa, for about 15 years. He is, as his wife says, "a good second man . . . the man who always does the work," but he has a special quality of sympathetic understanding. Furthermore, Scobie's Roman Catholicism is of a very devout and serious kind...
Early in life, Joao Café Filho was exposed to influences that were to set him apart from most of his countrymen. Brazil is a Roman Catholic nation, but Joao's parents were devout members of the flock of the Rev. William Porter, a Presbyterian missionary from the U.S. Cafe Filho was baptized in a Presbyterian chapel,* learned to read and write in the free elementary school maintained by Porter and his wife. Joao's first teachers were Henrietta and Evangeline Green, daughters of the U.S. vice consul in Natal...
...play concerns a young Roman Catholic girl who has become the mistress of a middle-aged married psychologist. She is deeply in love with him when, after her mother's death, she goes to live in a sort of religious Bleak House with two devout great-aunts and a paralyzed priest of a great-uncle. Her relatives exist in cramped fright, having sealed off-in their retreat from reality-room after room in which anyone has died. A wily, bigoted aunt first keeps the girl from running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront...
Fellow Alumnus. Soon, Fred Snite's comings and goings in his private mobile hospital (a converted bus) and by private railroad car between Chicago and Florida became commonplace. Then, with his devout Roman Catholic family and an entourage of twelve (a doctor, five nurses, a physiotherapist, two orderlies, two mechanics and a chauffeur), he made the pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. From the Vatican came the Pope's personal blessing. Fred Snite saluted the Pope "as an honorary fellow alumnus of the University of Notre Dame," insisted: "I ask no miracle ... I came here...