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...Newspapers, snowed under by wrathful letters from readers, erupted in editorial anger. To the Supreme Court Building in Washington came hundreds of letters and telegrams agreeing with the sentiments of Los Angeles Municipal Judge Ida May Adams, who concluded her usual court-opening prayer with a new plea: "God bless the Supreme Court and in Your wisdom let it be shown the error of its ways...
...company. In the play's final scene, Bolingbroke sentences Carlisle to live as a perpetual anchorite. Yet when Bolingbroke in the end decides to make a voyage of penance to the Holy Land, Waring's Carlisle, in a splendid touch, has the grandness of soul to step forward and bless his banisher with the sign of the Cross...
However, when Rockfeller was entering the Madison Hotel, just before the rally, a woman in the crowd leaned over, touched him and whispered "God bless you Mr. President." Rocky's reply...
...Well," sighed one tape watcher in the Beverly Hills office of Ira Haupt & Co., "now I've got 30% less than I had last Friday." A young Chicago couple stared glumly at their living room wall, where a petit point sampler proclaimed "God Bless Fairchild Camera." Across the land, 15 million investors reluctantly emerged from a dreamland of perpetual capital gains and grimly focused their attention on the citadel of U.S. capitalism at Broad and Wall Streets in lower Manhattan...
...fell asleep"), where the phrase "Weck'ich ihn nun auf? Ach nein!" ("Shall I wake him? Ah no"), repeated three times, was first coy, then a bit reproachful, and finally just the merest sigh of content. The Wolf group was lengthened by two encores, which Miss Schwarzkopf announced and (bless her!) translated: an exultant Ich hab' in Penna (a catalogue of lovers: one each in Penna, Maremma, Ancona, Viterbo, Casentino, and Magione; four in La Fratta, "und zehn in Castiglione," and a magnicently dramatic performance of the great Mignon ("Kennst du das land...