Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...introduced by Mr. Buck as "the nearest thing to a genius we have in this country," walked to the centre of the stage. As Irving Berlin began singing, the audience rose, joined in the music by the hundreds, then the thousands, until 15,000 voices were swelling God Bless America, an ASCAP song...
After the Democratic National Convention adjourned in Chicago last summer, many a hotel corridor resounded with the tune of God Bless America, but the words were different...
...literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...
...Romig doesn't care for God Bless America he will not be compelled to sing it. ... Almost every veterans' outfit and Minute Men organization in the land open their meetings with it. ... Portland (Ore.) used it for the floral theme of its annual Rose Festival. ... It is played at all Brooklyn Dodgers home games, at the midget auto races at Castle Hill Stadium in The Bronx, at bingo games, and it was a standout feature of the President's birthday balls.... At Sheboygan, Wis., a local ordinance makes it a must at all band concerts along with...
...desire has Berlin to see God Bless America become a national anthem. But he is anxious to keep it out of hotspots. To date he hasn't been very successful in this regard. Blatant Harry Richman has used it at Ben Marden's Riviera on the Hudson, many another has crooned it in similar clubs. He has also been unsuccessful in preventing translators from rendering it in alien tongues. A chapter of the Bund attempted unsuccessfully to adopt it as its official tune, but last month in Rochester, Wis. 40,000 U. S.-loving German-Americans celebrated German...