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...said: "It's a fine night, isn't it?" Answered James Albrecht, an out-of-a-job printer: "Kind of chilly, don't you think?" "Per-haps," said the stranger, "But just look at that beautiful moon." The next thing the stranger said was "Goodbye, good luck and God bless you." As he said this he was falling through the dark air into the river...
...self in Vienna, waiting for word to proceed to Rome. But no word came. Instead came General Wolkoff, glum and forbidding. The Vatican had not agreed to any compromise, it appeared. Unless all offspring of the union were brought up as Roman Catholics the Pope would not sanction or bless the marriage, and Princess Giovanna would automatically become excommunicate...
...dusk, years ago, the onyx clock struck the somber hour of nine and the little fair haired child ran to his mother's knee to say his prayers. When he came to the end with, "bless father", he was startled by a large warm tear fallen from his mother's great brown eyes. Then he too knew that father would not be home until late, and --. But the girls of Akron University have been to the movies too often to fall prey to the mere tailor made suavity of a smiling male. When their little Willie of the future says...
...catch and hold that greased and perhaps blind pig called Prohibition. They recalled Harding and the well-filled whiskey flask (for medicinal purposes) in his White House office desk, and Coolidge, dry as a Vermont tinder box but deficient in the hot crusading flame of the true prohibitor. Now-bless the day-had come a President in whom for years has been seen a steady, scientific glow of enthusiasm for social uplift...
Because the Italo-Papal treaty had not yet been ratified, His Holiness had positively announced before entering St. Peter's that he would not appear upon the balcony to bless the kneelers. However 200,000 Italians shouting "Il Papa! Il Papa!" in the rain are a powerful inducement, especially when they keep it up for four solid hours. Relenting at last, the vicar of Christ briefly appeared and adequately blessed the sopping flock, but he did not impart the especially potent blessing "Urbi et Orbi!" ("to the city and to the world...