Word: benisons
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...plane slid down. Briefly the public eye caught the Archbishop in a characteristic pose. In an open-air chapel, once the Shah's garden, he celebrated field mass. A portable organ played; a U.S. servicemen's choir sang. The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies...
...benison to fall...
...were not the only victors in last fortnight's great Democratic Sweep. Many a humble ward-heeler, many a red-nosed boss of a local machine, beamed and burbled. For there were few places in the land where the New Deal's triumph was not a golden benison to Democratic political machines. No less than 25 Democratic Governors were elected to supply their Democratic followers with patronage, the stuff that machines are made of. For all of them it was a glorious victory...
...they labored to make it one of the best. Last week brought the Institute's 90th birthday. From his uptown Cathedral Bishop William Thomas Manning journeyed down to the waterfront. There in a chapel in the tall, block-long building which now houses the Institute, he pronounced his benison on its work. One shadow clouded the celebration. Last February died the "Seamen's Saint," Dr. Archibald Romaine Mansfield who for 38 years was connected with the Institute. A stalwart man of God, Dr. Mansfield spent his early years battling the waterfront saloons and "crimp" boarding houses in which...
...offshoots of Houston Stewart Chamberlain like to conjure him up as a natural Nazi, a nationalist and illiberal to the linger tips, an exponent of all the fireeating nonsense conventionally associated with the Prussian landholder and thus addicted to patting Herr Hitler on the head with many a foxy benison...