Word: bless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would bless their food. President James Rowland Angell of Yale University. Author John Erskine (Columbia, 1900). Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (Columbia, 1889) of the New York Court of Appeals, put a final polish to their respective speeches. Non-Columbians accepting invitations to the dinner included Alfred Emanuel Smith. Owen D. Young. Governor...
...Peru, gold digging in the Klondike, lead and silver mining in Burma-all are set forth as "stock deals" in which Mr. Hoover profited while outside shareholders were losing their shirts. The whole book is written in a vicious insinuating style with rhetorical questions ("Did Hoover do this? Why, bless your simple heart, no!") and cruel jibes. Regardless of onesided venom, however, each page is made to bristle with figures, names and dates about oldtime Hoover companies until the reader does not know what not to believe...
...bless the alterations of the Basilica had come Most Rev. Pascual Diaz, plump, jolly, Indian-blooded Archbishop of Mexico; Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico; ten bishops and the entire clergy of Mexico City. Tourists warned by all-wise Guide Terry brought binoculars to gaze at the til ma above the high altar. After High Mass there began a solemn procession through the Basilica.* At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises. Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed...
...Bless Thy little lamb tonight...
...Then, if this be so," said the actor piously, "God bless 'the little church around the corner...