Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theirs is h. He could, if he wanted, wear his old school (Harrow) tie; instead he wears a cocky, defiant bow. He is a Tory, an imperialist, and has been a strikebreaker and Red-baiter; and yet, when he tours the gutted slums of London, old women say: "God bless you, Winnie...
...emotional stresses, once aroused in this fashion, tend to create a social compulsion not unlike state edict in its effect, while a brief look-see at the "God Bless America" excesses should convince anyone of the impossibility of maintaining this type of emotional patriotism within non-ridiculous bounds. (At one show currently on Broadway a magician pulls 20 Starred-and-Striped chorus girls out of a hat; they're honeys, but would Professor Elliott approve...
...marriage for divorced persons, still provides that anyone remarried by a civil ceremony "shall forfeit his or her status as a Communicant." The new feature is a provision that "he or she may apply to any Minister of the Church . . . for the restoration of such status and for a blessing upon their union. The Minister . . . shall then lay the petition and his findings be fore the Bishop. . . . In case of a favorable judgment, the Minister in his discretion may bless the parties to the union, using such parts of the Office for the Solemnization of Matrimony as are pertinent thereto...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria the National Committee for Music Appreciation made two simultaneous awards: to Songwriter Irving Berlin for the outstanding composition of the year, God Bless America (originally written in 1917); to Industrialist George A. Sloan, chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association's executive committee, for distinguished cultural service to the community...
...millionaire criminal lawyer and Tammanyman. More like a chatty, affectionate family letter than a will, it named Wife Bertha P. Steuer chief beneficiary, bequeathed her $60,000 a year, gave equal parts of one-half the estate's remaining income to his three children. Excerpts: "My grandchildren-God bless them all-who have been such a joy to me, may deem it strange that no bequest is herein made to them. I have each one of them in mind, and love them with all my heart. I have heretofore created a trust for each of them after a life...