Word: devoutness
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...since the Nazi coup, the Countess has had only one quiet amusement-chatting with the former Chancellor while he was "honorably detained" in the Belvedere Palace. One of the things they talked about was getting married. They had been thinking about it for some time, but Chancellor Schuschnigg, a devout Roman Catholic, could not marry a divorced woman. Last December, the Vatican came to their aid by annulling the Countess' previous marriage, without stating grounds. But the Church asked the Chancellor not to marry as long as he was in power. With Anschluss, the Nazis opened up the hymenal...
...ornate neoGothic, spaciously integrates a whole 12th-Century chapter house, three open cloisters, Romanesque and Gothic chapels, a refectory and several long galleries of superb sculpture and tapestries. First visitors last week could trace, in an hour's attentive ramble, the progress of medieval art from the devout symbolism of the 11th Century to the tender realism of the 15th. Biggest & best show piece: the unsurpassed Flemish tapestries of the Unicorn Hunt which Collector Rockefeller bought in 1923 for a reported...
...debt-ridden churches in his locality, a devout Methodist last week put forward a bit of oldtime religion. John O. Mullins, of Wesley, Iowa offered 100 bushels of seed corn free to farmers who would undertake to plant it on "God's acres," give the crop to God's uses. Worth $700, the seed corn would be distributed in 7-pound packages, each of which would plant one acre, produce 50 bushels-at 75? per bushel, a total of some...
Probably the only U. S. farmers' co-operative which maintains an active religious department, the federation, under the presidency of devout James G. K. McClure Jr., has been well pleased with results of the Lord's Acre Plan, has furnished information concerning it to churchmen in 40 States. Some 325 North Carolina churches, of eleven denominations, employ it. The largest, a Baptist church in Hendersonville, received $2,352 last year from 40-odd acres planted to corn, sweet potatoes, cabbages, etc. Rev. B. M. Strickland (Baptist) reported that since his people have taken up the Lord...
...devout son of a Congregationalist minister, Arnaud Marts does not smoke or drink. He soon had 700 Bucknell students attending chapel. He also boosted the university's enrollment to 1,235, largest in its history, restored faculty salary cuts and in two years raised $800,000 for college buildings...