Word: pious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mistaken about that Mr. McGrady," and he promptly became her aide. In Washington he lives quietly with one of his married daughters. His two sons are dead and his wife, a large Irishwoman, lives mostly in Boston with another married daughter. In private life he is an unusually pious Catholic, carries a rosary, also a crucifix blessed for a Happy Death, and on which, if ill or unable to get to church, he may gain a plenary indulgence by saying the Stations of the Cross, reciting 14 Our-Fathers, Hail-Marys, Glorias and praying for the intention of the Holy...
...such as cleaning latrines, barbering, cobbling, laundering and Cremating. If an orthodox caste Hindu chances to touch an Untouchable he must cleanse himself by bathing and he is socially ostracized by other caste Hindus until he has been purified by Hindu priests. Their charges for this amount to a pious racket...
...Pittsburgh, Philip Murray, pious and progressive captain of the Committee for Industrial Organization's drive to unite U. S. steelworkers in one big industrial union, announced that new recruits to date totaled 82,315, cried that the re-election of Roosevelt was a signal to "go forward...
...declared that among other things he wished to "take the pulse'' of the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 19). This wish he undoubtedly attained before his final inspection of the heart of the U. S. at Hyde Park. At Inisfada, the Manhasset, L. I. estate of rich and pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, the Roman Cardinal had met the rich and great, pagan and Protestant as well as Catholic. More than one socialite had been so jittery about what to wear that hurried inquiries had been sent to the State Department's Division of Protocol & Conferences, which stipulated...
...presidents Brown has had since 1764 were all Baptist ministers. A pious Methodist layman, big, bespectacled Educator Wriston was born in Laramie, Wyo., 47 years ago, went to Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), got a Ph.D. in History at Harvard, returned to teach at Wesleyan. During the War he had a desk job with the Connecticut State Council of Defense, became a full professor at Wesleyan before being called to Lawrence...