Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were justly pleased with themselves. Said a village physician: "We did a good job. We didn't lose a single survivor-or a single first-aider." The regional director's comment on the local report sounded like Revolutionary days: "I can add no word to this. God bless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...Russia Reynolds attended the famous banquet of 23 courses ("the three high spots were perhaps the mushrooms fried in sour cream, the sturgeon in champagne and the pilaf of quail") at which Stalin asked God to bless Franklin Roosevelt. Between courses Author Reynolds found time to tick off some neat thumb nail impressions of Soviet leaders...
...Virginia Lucie became Lady Northampton. That day the tenants at Castle Ashby forgot about the war for one day and sang and danced and drank old ale, as tenants have done for centuries when the master takes a bride. "Be you all of good cheer," said His Lordship. "God bless you, sir, and may your line increase," the tenants cried. And then the Marquess and his Lady left for a honeymoon at His Lordship's country cottage at Loch Luichart in Scotland, and began to live happily ever after...
...midst of writing these words, I heard a sudden roar, looked overhead at a transport plane circling in low. I heard cries: "Hurray, Hurray" from American enlisted men as the plane circled and landed. "Don't that plane look good. Go kiss it." Someone sang God Bless America...
...feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting, in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an enthusiastic ASCAPite proposed that the assembled members rise and intone "God bless Buck" three times. In the confusion that followed, President Buck blushed deeply. But it would have been no chant of hypocrisy. Gene Buck was eased out, not kicked out. He retains a seat on the board of directors, is being kept on "in an advisory capacity," reportedly...