Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This weekend, at a church in nearby Littlebury, the vicar will pray: "Oh, God, who has taught us to pray concerning our daily bread, bless, we beseech Thee, Thy servant Richard Austen Butler in his gigantic task for our country this coming week." Two days later, to the traditional cries of "Yah, Yah, Yah!", Rab Butler will step to the clerks' table in the House of Commons, open the old red leather dispatch box once used by Gladstone and lay down the budget which will shape the British economy for the coming year...
...worth at a penny a share. It has since gone up to 5?. All the while, Walters has kept stockholders encouraged by cheery reports that do not always bear on the company's prospects. Sample: "It is great to be able to pay taxes, and God bless America, the land of opportunities...
...children. I want to take them, please." Then the judge asked her (for the record) whether she would "teach these children to hate this country." Her reply: "No, no, no!" Judge McNally awarded her temporary (presumably until her death) custody of Michael and Robert. Piped Michael: "God bless you, judge...
...harmony with its uneventful life, Grays Hall slipped quietly into Harvard Yard in 1863. Concerned only with the Civil War, the College did not even bless the house with a ground-breaking ceremony. Its drab appearance well fitting the role, Grays dragged through its colorless career until 1950 when a decrepit fourth floor room gave up the struggle and collapsed...
...vowed that he would not support a candidate of the faction headed by Governor John Fine and National Committeeman Mason Owlett. When names were suggested, Duff would bless no one except his old friend, Lieut. Governor Lloyd Wood, 56. It was assumed that Fine, Owlett & Co. would refuse to back Wood, and then Jim would hear a clear call to "save the party" by running himself...