Word: blessing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hyannis, Mass. The gathering of the clan all but buried Family Friend Dean Markham, who works in Washington as executive secretary of the President's Narcotics and Drug Abuse Committee, and was, after all, the baby's godfather. Said Cardinal Cushing, after administering a special papal blessing: "God bless you, Christopher George-if you don't become a priest or a cardinal it's not my fault...
Informed that King George V wished to see him on a Saturday, Lloyd George explodes: "Damn the King! Saturday is the only day I have to play golf." When the King suggests that Monday will do as well, his Prime Minister exclaims: "God bless His Majesty." One of Beaverbrook's best disclosures is that the old radical was willing to resign as Prime Minister if he could become editor of the conservative London Times "at a decent salary and with a decent contract...
...Steele surprised everyone by risking the Kennedy Administration's wrath with an announcement of selected price increases averaging $6 a ton. Steele's timing seemed a deliberate test of President Kennedy's present mood, and steelmen happily hailed Wheeling's lead. Said one competitor: "God bless...
...been presented to someone other than a producer. President Kennedy, ex-Presidents Eisenhower and Truman telegraphed their congratulations. And then, "with great pride," surrounded by a boodle of filmdom's most glittering stars, the old tunesmith clogged every throat when he hopped to the piano to God Bless America, as only Irving...
...Safari, Hallowell attempts what every young writer attempts and usually fails at. He writes from his own experience and, God bless us, generally succeeds in changing personal trauma into...