Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fewer and fewer bottles have been seen this year at the Stadium, but Harvard football has been blest with warm weather to date, and no real shiver-test has come along to bless the liquor-purveyors. Attendance has been dropping also, so even if the percentage of boozing undergraduates remained constant, the effect on local salesmen would decrease...
...Bless 'em all. Bless 'em all, the long and the short and the tall." That's about the way the Naval Officer Procurement thinks of its WAVES even though they did just take a poll of 100 New England female officers to find out what they were getting...
...beat at Chicago's College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous as the sign-off he gave Jan. 15 for the last time: "Au revoir, a fond cheerio, a bit of toodle-oo, God bless you, and pleas-ant dreams...
...Sentimentality is spreading and it is encouraged by the action of scattering of ashes. . . . People will give extraordinary directions about the taking of their ashes to a particular spot or out to sea. ... It should be our duty to take a firm stand. . . . We are not called upon to bless popular practices...
...Good luck, and God bless you all." That night Monty's Britons and Canadians moved across the docks and beaches to their landing boats. The boats, group by group, turned toward the near shore of Italy. The night was clear and starry. Across the Straight of Messina, only two to twelve miles wide, the men in the boats could see the rocky outline of the Calabrian peninsula. Dawn was touching the sky and the shore when the first invaders landed on the chosen beachhead, a ten-mile strip of destiny around the port of Reggio Calabria...