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Word: blessing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live up to my obligations as minister, I would hand in my credentials and stop preaching. I would not walk up & down the streets a self-confessed liar by puffing a cigar. . . . Many ministers complain they are not getting results in their works. How can you expect God to bless a liar? . . . When any member of this conference violates his obligation not to use tobacco, you have a right to bring charges against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Puffing Preachers | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...life and sustained by its affection, this will be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxious labors of my reign of well-nigh five and twenty years. ... I commend you to the Father of whom you and every family in Heaven and on Earth is made. God bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Said Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler: "The inward and spiritual and immortal aspect of Barnard College has been contributed to by this rich personality-God bless him-and those who have worked with him and by him so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Barnard's Hero | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...match to light the candles on his cake. At length one guest proffered a cigaret lighter, explained that he used it only to light his way home on winter evenings. Gingerly the president of the Non-Smokers' Protective League took the instrument, lighted the candles. Purred he, "God bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...talk to this 'ere European royalty." Then I spotted my friend Belts, and gave him the wink, and he approached the head table, and again addressing Caelani quite formally, I said, "Your Excellency, you remember Mr. Belts who was with you in Alaska?" The Royal Italian Ambassador. God bless him, looked up with a start and with a beautiful smile exclaimed: "Why Bob Belts, you god-damned old son-of-a-bilch, where the hell did you come from?" And the Mayor, his eyes sticking out like organ stops, again whispered in my left ear: "God Almighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1934 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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