Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wildcat, bobcat, polecat, foxes, coons, possums and rabbits. Nights, he took a coal-oil lantern down to the Keechi Creek, baited up with rabbit entrails, fished all night long. Uncle Row could catch catfish, when no one else could. There was a secret to it, but Uncle Row said: "Bless my soul, I'd explain it to you but you wouldn't understand...
...dear God, please bless the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Girard Trust Co., and the Republican Party." Thus, says Author Struthers Burt, the children of Philadelphia's rich once closed their bedtime prayers. Ever since ex-Mayor Benjamin W. Richards helped found the Girard in 1835 (naming it after Philanthropist Stephen Girard), the bank has been one of Philadelphia's strongest pillars of good business and decorum. It was the first trust company in its district to join the Federal Reserve System; it thought it should, "from the standpoint of patriotism." In its vaults lie the securities that make...
...harried Manhattan bus driver cried: "Folks, they say we had a miracle in the election of President Truman. Now let's show them a real miracle. Let's all move to the rear of the bus." When, incredibly, the passengers moved, the driver broke into God Bless America...
...Churchill, who on the conference's last day made the kind of stirring speech that only he can make. Winnie arrived at Llandudno's Grand Hotel accompanied by Mrs. Churchill and his chocolate-brown poodle, Rufus. The entire hotel staff was lined up to welcome him. "God bless you, sir," a waitress cried as he passed...
White-haired Horace M. Ainscough, 62, first went down the pits in 1895 in Lancashire, England, and finally retired from the Union Pacific Coal Co.'s mines in Rock Springs, Wyo. last February. His pension, retroactive to the day he retired: $100-a-month. Said Ainscough: "God bless the day John L. Lewis was born...