Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case anyone is interested, the one gift she would like most to have this year is either an automobile, a fur coat, some household appliance, a radio or radio-phonograph, some clothes, a trip, or a home (one asked for a man and an engagement ring and another, bless her, would like a five-year subscription to TIME). Furthermore, the average TIME-reading woman thinks the chances are pretty good that she will get the gift she wants...
...through the grubby show window of an empty little shop in the main road of Bedhampton, a Hampshire village. He smiled broadly as he pictured the cookies and cakes and pies he would bake to fill it. "It's all the King's doing," he cried. "God bless the King!" After the first World War, in which he served as an R.A.F. observer, Alfred had opened up his own pastry shop in London's Ealing. In World War II, Alfred joined the R.A.F. again. His house at Croydon was bombed one night while Alfred was at home...
...mother, God bless her, she never sees...
...Hope- Bless your little heart, there is no hope. Only the almost infinite probability Of consummating suddenly, Or else by agonizing inches, The ultimate and irremediable Detumescence...
...sell any more books because we have no more to sell . . . to think how hard it used to be . . . it's nice to be glorious and popular in your old age, and to buy bones for Basket [her dog] and be admired by the young, well bless you kiddies bless...