Word: thees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American: My country, 'tis of thee...
Episcopal prayer "For Our Country": "Almighty God who hast given us this good land for our heritage: We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, confusion...
...Newport News went Mrs. Hoover to break a champagne bottle of water collected from the seven seas over the prow of a new Dollar liner, to declare: "I name thee President Hoover." Herbert Hoover III in the launching stand, shouted with excited glee, gave his grandmother's arm an impulsive shove. Declared R. Stanley Dollar: "Such is our answer to the rumor of a business depression...
...Dancers (Fox). When Phillips Holmes finds his boyhood sweetheart (Lois Moran) teaching school in a small French town, she confesses to him that she has not lived up to the inscription she once wrote on her photograph: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more." Holmes, however, has been true to her. A fair thematic idea knits up this otherwise silly and incoherent picture. All is based on an old story of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. All is distinctly British in tone and notable only for the first appearance in talking pictures of Mrs. Patrick...
...reverend administrators of 19 Protestant ministerial pension funds conferred at Atlantic City last week. They were humbly aware that it is God "that giveth thee power to get wealth," in their cases $154,258,455 collected from 22,609,989 church members to care for 110,000 ministers. Yet they wanted manly wisdom on the investment of that wealth. Dispenser of the wisdom was Rev. William Thomas Boult, 43, who worked two years for Scranton, Pa. investment bankers before becoming treasurer of several national Congregational organizations...