Word: devoutness
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...incurable romantic for almost the same reason Louisa May Alcott did. Miss Alcott had brothers and sisters to support. Mrs. Norris feels she must support the hearts of the thousands of people who began to write her letters when she began writing books. She cannot fail her public. A devout Roman Catholic, her conscience is with her as constantly as her portable typewriter, which it is not unusual to see in action on station platforms or in railroad cars when her copy is nearly due. Mornings at home, her telephones (and her husband's) are disconnected until...
...devout but unostentatious Roman Catholic...
...hospitals. It was in 1919 that she returned to the Metropolitan, a greater artist than before. Since then she has had a succession of successes as Fiora in L'Amore, Violetta in Traviata, Mimi in Bohème, Nedda in Pagliacci, Juliette, Manon, Mélisande. She is devout and, like most opera singers, superstitious. She has a wire-haired terrier, "Rowdy," whom she adores. She makes up when she goes to bed with the same care that she does for the stage. She plays golf very seriously, loves to drive a car and drive it fast. In Ravinia...
Small storekeepers, craftsmen and farmers are the people who vote for Carl Gustaf Ekman and his People's Party. He used to be the village blacksmith of Munktorp in drowsy Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...
...against Jews. While the Ashkenazic (German) Jews of northern and eastern Europe were scuttling from one oppressive country to another. Sephardic (Spanish) Jews were looming in the Mediterranean basin as leaders in medicine (Isaac Israeli), philosophy (Maimonides), government, and in commerce. When Christians drove the Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived in Amsterdam was Manasseh ben Israel, who persuaded Cromwell to allow the Jews to return to England...