Word: pious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a pious preliminary denial that their picture has any factual basis, the producers of "Stolen Holiday" then proceed to given an amazingly accurate play by play account of the now famous Stavisky "bucket shop" scandal, which nearly caused a French revolution several years ago. Only one major departure from historical truth can be noted--instead of ending up in the log show of New York's French Casino, as did Stavisky's wife Sacha, Kay Francis marries an English diplomat, thus suppling the customary happy ending...
...comfort can be gained from Section 2A of the law, which Dr. Beatley would have one believe removes most valid objections. This section is a pious statement that the law is not intended to interfere with freedom of speech and thought as guaranteed by the Constitution. In fact, this very tergiseveration admits that the law aims to do just that. A dagger dipped in honey is no less deadly...
...gain an idea of what their pastoral duties will be like, U. S. theological students spend much of their spare time doing welfare work, practising preaching in missions, doing pious chores for ministers. But for men of God there exists no compulsory interneship comparable to that fulfilled by men of medicine. Last week, simultaneously with announcing election of a new dean, the Divinity School (Protestant Episcopal) in Philadelphia announced a new "clinical" course of study which will give its students the longest scholastic year -eleven months-of any in the U. S. To be administered by new Dean Allen Evans...
...Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758), though a pious and respected man, was addicted to cards and profane language, kept a crucifix in his apartments to curb his tongue. Once, in one of Christendom's great moments, he became so incensed at a partner at cards that he signaled to have the crucifix removed, let loose such a volley of oaths that his companions cried him down: "Holy Father, for God's sake, Holy Father!" So, at least, writes Valerie Pirie in The Triple Crown, a lively account of the Papacy published last month (Putnam...
...their larger and more successful competitors. . . . The Robinson-Patman bill would have been beaten to a frazzle if these stores had enlisted the aid of their customers." When the Dry Goods platform finally emerged from the resolutions committee on the fourth day of the convention, it had become a pious resolution approving "the objective toward which the general principles are directed." This was approved unanimously. Having thus sidestepped the issue completely, they turned the platform over to a committee for further study, and many a shrewd merchant privately declared that that would be the last ever heard of it. Even...