Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding a meeting of the local Democratic Club. The invaders addressed the audience as "Progressive Citizens of America," announced that they would allow ten minutes for the meeting to break up. Then they withdrew. Arrival of the police kept them from returning. ¶ Coughing, stamping and singing God Bless America, a group of veterans forced adjournment of a Communist rally in Bridgeport, Conn. Gerhart Eisler was the scheduled speaker...
...Hopeful. In the window appeared a tired, ascetic, unshaven old man in a worn black cassock. This was Padre Antonio. In a commanding voice, he announced that he would first bless the sick. Then he singled out some of the most pitiful in the sweating, excited yet strangely quiet crowd. "Stand up and walk," he said, pointing to a cripple. Others tried to catch his eye. "No, not you. Get away. You there, stand up and walk." Some of the apparently crippled stood up and walked before the silent crowd...
...will now bless the water, the candles, the medals." Thousands of hands were instantly stretched overhead, and in the shabby cobbled street, flanked on each side by one-story stucco houses, all built on stilts, one saw only the waving uncorked bottles-beer bottles, whiskey bottles, thermos jugs, casks and demijohns. Some people held up candles, some picture postcards of Padre Antonio, some cheap Virgin Mary medallions...
...Sullivan has long seemed to me to be willing to go to the gutter to find a hero." To prove it, Peg unwrapped a 1929 Sullivan column eulogizing Frank Marlow, a murdered Manhattan mobster ("Goodbye, Frank, and God bless you."). Pegler's verdict on Sullivan: "A prideful intimacy with many of the worst gangsters ... a professional name-dropper, a grown-up but still callow Saturday night sport...
...year prison term on a charge of raping a local taxi dancer. He sought vengeance on the judge, the prosecutor, the cabaret owner and the taxi dancer. Three hours before his fatal gun battle with MPs at Calapan's airfield, he said to the parish priest: "Bless me, Father, for I will...