Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bless all Americans like Farmer Rhinehart. If we want our freedom and our way of life to endure, we'll have to share it. What you don't use, you lose...
...Come, Little Michael!" Outside, beyond the garden hedges, a few other refugees from Rumania waited. When the couple appeared, they called, "Come nearer, little Michael," and "Take us back to Bucharest." When Michael stepped close and waved, his former subjects wept. Cried one: "God bless you Greeks for giving my Michael such a fine wedding...
Diego Rivera's new mural in a Mexico City hotel had stirred up a tequila tempest: the Archbishop refused to bless the hotel because the mural in the dining room contained the words "God does not exist" (TIME, June 14). Last week the ideological brew boiled over, and some of it spilled on the painting...
...suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
When a reporter got to Rivera's house, the garrulous, 61-year-old revolutionary was ready & waiting, with both guns loaded. "I respectfully propose," he offered grandly, "that the Archbishop bless the hotel in order that, with divine help, it may realize the greatest profits possible, and that he damn my [mural] so that I may go tranquilly to hell. Then everyone will be happy...