Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afterwards, to irate P. Toms the manager of St. Albans hospital fair adroitly explained why he had shown a white fox terrier bitch as Lady Godiva. "Some other towns, now, may not be like St. Albans," said he meaningly, "but our girls-bless their sweet hearts-are all good girls! Not a one in the whole town would show herself in tights and false hair. So's not to disappoint anyone I just named this little dog 'Lady Godiva,' and I guess you'll admit she rode the way God made her, except I scrubbed...
...brief, emotional speech of acceptance Dr. Cabot, no brilliant speaker, told the Social Workers that he loves their profession, loves it because of its audacity, because of its enormous tasks. He concluded: "God forgive us all. God bless...
...Tower bought a big bag of what rooks like. Pompous in his red coat, the eldest Guardsman, bag in hand, surrounded by expectant birds, made a few appropriate remarks, chiefly for the benefit of humans who had gathered to watch. "Sure and our Holy Mither herself, may she bless His Majesty!" cried the old Guardsman, "And Divil take his enemies, bad cess...
...Spring. The adolescents whom she comes to enlighten are still of undetermined sex. They mix happily, spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes the adolescents, sets them to a surging crescendo of relent tom-tom rhythms...
...eyes of Edward Laurence Doheny, 73, California oilman, were damp with grateful tears. His cheeks were pink with happy excitement. His back tingled pleasantly where his smart lawyer, Frank J. Hogan, had thumped him in high delight. "Thank you and God bless you!" he cried to the nine men and three women jurors who had just acquitted him of bribery, in the District of Columbia Supreme Court...