Word: thanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another sermon he described the scene which would take place when he arrived in Heaven. First he will shake hands with Jesus and thank Him for coming to the world and for calling Billy Sunday to His work. He, Billy Sunday, will then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come...
Later His Majesty attempted to entice Her Majesty onto a bathroom scale. "No thank you," said she firmly, but waited indulgently while he stood upon the plate and exclaimed "Right!" as the pointer touched...
...British ships. "Luck was with me. Tremendous hurricane, and it was the shortest day of the year, December 21. It was dark from 4 in the afternoon till 9.30 the next morning. It was only a pirate's chance. We run. Then we get out of the blockade and thank God for our escape when we meet an 18,000 ton cruiser and were examined by her for two hours. I was a Norwegian captain, but the name of my ship was wrong. It was my hardest examination, and it took a bottle of 100-year-old brandy to help...
...time, in fact ever since the muddy slush in the holes of Massachusetts Avenue began to get on his nerves and in his shoes. But even the in-elemency of New England weather, and his interest in the onion and Easter lily crop in Bermuda--which is doing nicely, thank you--could not keep him from what he considered a duty as well as a pleasure. For man does not live by--but we all know that story...
...Negro and a few women were spared. All through Texas cries went up: "Remember the Alamo." But Texans were not given to cries without action. To get Santa Anna, they chose a commander named Sam Houston, 6 ft., 3 in. in his moccasins, of whom President Andrew Jackson said: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor."* Commander Houston wasted no time in routing the Mexicans at the battle of San Jacinto and capturing General Santa Anna...