Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nice of you to give all that publicity to our Exposition, but we who happen to live in downtown hotels will certainly have reason to bless you when tourists roam our neighborhood all night looking for trouble ! As a matter of fact, the neighborhood you have libeled is like any other downtown dis trict in a large city- it has plenty of bar rooms, gambling houses and houses of assigna tion. But it also includes a dozen quite respectable hotels, the Glide Memorial Church (Southern Methodist), the B'nai Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot...
...horsy communities, Anglican and Episcopal priests commonly bless foxhounds on St. Hubert's Day (November 3). At least one Manhattan night club has been blessed by a Russian Orthodox priest - Prince Serge Obolensky's Maisonette Russe. Besides blessing persons...
...Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...
...dome when Franklin Roosevelt closed with a quotation from Abraham Lincoln: "This generation will 'nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. . . . The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just-a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless...
...remain a model for enthusiastic neophyte actors who essay this role in high-school productions of the same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least appetizing shot: the greedy members of the Cratchit family gleefully fingering the pitiful corpse of their uncooked Christmas goose...