Word: blesse
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...grey in the distance, the aged, blue-green bronze that is the substance of dreams-the Statue of Liberty. Only they could say what that meant to them, and of the 1,223, not one could voice what is unvoiceable. But one wavering voice began to sing God Bless America-and they all sang it, the sophisticated and the plain, and meant...
...ships carrying a quarter of a million Allied servicemen in & out of South Africa's busiest wartime port. Standing on Durban's quays in her invariable white dress and red hat, Perla Siedle amplifies her vibrant soprano with a ship's megaphone. Yanks ask for God Bless America, The Star-Spangled Banner, Tommies for There'll Always Be An England. Australians want Waltzing Matilda. South Africans prefer their own Afrikander folk songs like Sarie Marais. Czechs, Poles and Greeks like opera arias...
Fewer and fewer bottles have been seen this year at the Stadium, but Harvard football has been blest with warm weather to date, and no real shiver-test has come along to bless the liquor-purveyors. Attendance has been dropping also, so even if the percentage of boozing undergraduates remained constant, the effect on local salesmen would decrease...
...Bless 'em all. Bless 'em all, the long and the short and the tall." That's about the way the Naval Officer Procurement thinks of its WAVES even though they did just take a poll of 100 New England female officers to find out what they were getting...
...beat at Chicago's College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous as the sign-off he gave Jan. 15 for the last time: "Au revoir, a fond cheerio, a bit of toodle-oo, God bless you, and pleas-ant dreams...