Word: bless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine boy, not a blemish, God bless him"); other boys ("hey bricktop! hey carrots"); the snow ("centuries hence, it will be long ago''). You follow his career by reading a list of Inscriptions in Sundry Places, from which you learn that he spent his boyhood in the South at the end of the last century...
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...when, in a world which is still only nominally Christian, resort is had to armed force, the Church does not look upon soldiers as murderers or deprive them of its sacraments . . . upon what principle, then, would the literalists ask the Church to bless a soldier going forth to kill the enemy whom Jesus bids him love, and deny its blessing to persons who, while properly debarred from the ecclesiastical solemnization of their marriage, have been remarried under civil sanctions after the case has been reviewed by an ecclesiastical court and found free from moral turpitude...
...that can equal apple eider. This is his last column of the year and he is getting a little informal. Heigh, ho, his inches are filled, his brain is befogged and you, dear reader, are heartily fed up with all this nonsense. In the words of Tiny Tim. "God Bless Ua, Every One." And in parting the Vagabond wants to extend his particular good wishes to the tutee who is about to take History 28. God rent ye merry...
...mortar with a silver trowel, tapping lightly a great block of white limestone, Mrs. Herbert Hoover announced last week: "On behalf of the National Women's Committee of the Washington Cathedral, I declare that the first stone of the North Porch is duly and truly laid. May God bless and prosper the work of our hands upon us." The North Porch thus consecrated is the gift of U. S. womanhood to the nation's Westminster Abbey: the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban, 400 ft. above the city...