Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent press dispatches are to be credited, Dean Frederick Sheetz Jones has announced the possible erection of an academic skyscraper in the center of Yale campus which will overshadow Nathan Hale and Connecticut and even the hated purlieus of Hush Hall. Shades of Timothy Dwight! How will God-Bless-You Mary ever collect her washing and how will Jerry deliver the Lit and the Oldest College Daily at the twentieth floor? Why by express elevator of course, and the undergraduate of the future will lounge elegantly about in libraries, billiard parlors and sun rooms hundreds of feet above the site...
...Reverend Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo spoke the Commoner's funeral oration before a crowded church: "There was a threefold splendor about this noble man. . . . He had a capacity for noble living. . . . He had a deep capacity for love. . . . He had a rich capacity for faith. . . . God bless and hallow the heritage and memory of William Jennings Bryan...
...name began to command space in the newspapers. It was then considered impossible to play good music for audiences at Promenade Concerts; they wanted to hear Goodbye, Dolly, I Must Leave You, or the airy ballads that squat Dan Leno was yodeling in the Empire Theatre. "But God bless my soul," said Henry J. Wood, "if they don't like Wagner, why God bless my soul I'll play him until they do." Soon he went further, began to make the British public interested in Russian music. When people clapped, he made his orchestra rise and bow behind...
...last time I ever saw her, and the last time she ever saw me with earthly eyes, was here in New York on the night that I was ordained to the Christian ministry. May she, too, join the group that looks down from the battlements of Heaven to bless us here...
...SHALLOW END-Major Ian Hay Beith-Houghton, Mifflin ($3.00). This book is dedicated to "the average British crowd"-God bless its sensible heart! Stimulated by the thought that "the shallow end is often much deeper than we think," the gallant Major considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused...