Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arty Sierra Madre, Los Angeles suburb, artists painted models in the streets. In front of Portland, Ore.'s handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design...
...innocent niece. Tyrone Power is the gay young caballero and he gives the part all he has. But much more convincing is the corpulent Padre, Eugene Pallette, who feels righteous in clouting half an army over the head, so long as he says fervently with each blow, "God bless me." Linda Darnell is impressive by her beauty, if not her acting...
...Bless Clark Shaughnessy, Frankie Albert, too, Stand beside them and guide them And they'll bring victories dear...
...tune of God Bless America, Stanford students so sang last week. In their mammoth yellow stadium, 65,000 football fans had gathered to see their Indians play Washington in the No. 1 game of the week...
Tribute to quip-lipped Columnist Walter Winchell's caterwauling against the fifth column came from the Mount Airy, N. C. Times: "We propose an honor to this American-who fears no man, party, or power: let 'God Bless America' be changed to read, 'God Bless America and Give Us More Walter Winchells.' " At his Finnish home, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim...