Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lincoln's death inspired Little Tad ("God bless the little orphan boy, a father's darling pride"), post-war scorn for the South jelled into the unwarranted Jeff in Petticoats. The absurd feminine posture of the late '60s, called the Grecian Bend, was ribbed in a song. So was the style of tasseled shoes...
Wendell Willkie conferred with Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, looked over U.S. troop installations, spoke to U.S. soldiers with amiable profanity: "I just want to say I'm damned glad to see you. God bless you and give 'em hell." He regretted he could not give U.S. correspondents the latest baseball news (see p. 50). When he rebuked the strict Mideast censorship a reporter cried, "Thanks...
Last Word. In Manhattan, a British tar who had spent part of the night at a bar telling U.S. sailors how much better everything is in Britain, awoke with a hangover and a pain in his chest, found he had been tattooed with the U.S. flag and "God Bless America...
...radio's high-priced newsmen is a triumph for corn. His reports from Washington for NBC have always sounded as if they were delivered from a cracker barrel near the stove in the general store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME, Feb. 2) as the Voice of Ford...
...rained. After a while, they got so they waved their hands at the crowds in a methodical way. There were stiff luncheons with polite speeches, formal dinners with high, windy, patriotic talk. There were rallies in auditoriums and ball parks. Sometimes there was vaudeville. Someone usually sang God Bless America...