Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church. I am told that Roman Catholics all over the country are very favorably disposed toward your magazine because of the fair manner in which you treat their religious news. Please accept my very best wishes for the continued success of your very interesting and valuable publication. May God bless you and the staff of TIME...
...logic displace the happy truth that all genius lives forever in the sentiments and ideas it inspires? And was not Hypatia a genius? Was she not beautiful? And modest? And intelligent? And was she not done to death in oyster shells? Holy fishes, is this not enough for immortality? Bless my soul, I should like to teach those girls a happy thing...
19th. Betimes up, and to the State House all the morning hearing many tricky speeches to repeal the Teacher's Oath Law; this, bless my soul, continues to be the best three ring circus in Boston: Never in my life have I seen a chairman so easily fussed as Senator Miles; a State Representative more naive than McDermott; speakers so well-meaning and yet so careless of their words; or an audience with so many fat, bubbling women...
...Delicate discourse on communism, constitutions, free love and growing babies--however interesting--will never change ideas petrified with political emotion. Some people can be convinced only in terms of numbers and majorities; our representatives, it seems to me, are of that unfortunate sort. If the bill is repealed; which, bless my soul, I doubt, it will not be because of ideals, appeal to reason or even to common sense but because the committee is made to fear a majority is against it. This be sorry business and as a merry Vagabond it makes me feel dirty even to talk about...
...literature", and that sentence in its rashness is indicative of the critical level of all the other statements made by the others, none of whom was or is a critic of any consequence. As the chief American poet, of course Mr. Jeffers should know better than to bless "The Hermaphrodite", which has a superficial smoothness that some people, like Mr. Benjamin De Casseres, the author of the Preface, will mistake for "passion, seusuousness, and and spontaneity." But still waters do not always run deep--in poetry, and facility is not all. Indeed it is to be doubted whether Mr. Loveman...