Word: devoutness
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...made inevitable" by Machine Age appliances which permit One Man to make friends with all or nearly all his countrymen. The worldwide result, as yet not fully achieved, seems likely to be not Democracy or Dictatorship but both in one-a mystery potent enough to recall the Trinity, since devout Communists and devout Fascists alike today show all the symptoms of religious fanatics...
...chairman. But with an increased sense of work to be done, perhaps even of Reform to be unReformed so that Jews may keep together, the Union last week chose a man of calibre to be its president: Robert Phillips Goldman, 46-year-old Cincinnati lawyer. Although he is a devout worshipper at the Cincinnati Temple named for the founder of U. S. Reform, Isaac Mayer Wise, Lawyer Goldman has devoted his career to Reform of another kind. An authority on proportional representation, he did much backstage work in the Charter movement which ousted Cincinnati's machine government...
...beginning to show a paunch and double chin, Young Jim is quiet, uncommunicative, abrupt. He shoots ducks, golfs almost daily, bowls every Monday until midnight, likes to read political history. Devoted to his two daughters, aged 13 and 9, he is, like all Pendergasts, a devout Roman Catholic. He and his wife spend most of their evenings at home, invite friends in frequently for cards (bridge and pitch). Mrs. Pendergast devotes much time to hospital work...
That's the story." Canberra, the Capital of Australia: Devout Catholic Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons convenes an emergency session of the Australian Parliament for this week and keeps in continuous touch with Stanley Baldwin by short-wave radio...
...House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist who would like to restore the Habsburgs with young Archduke Otto enthroned at Vienna as Emperor...