Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said. "When I am offered money, I suggest that they put the amount of the fare into the church collection box." Gray pooh-poohs the financial sacrifice on his part. "In the early morning, business is bad," he explains. "I just wanted to thank the Lord for my good fortune...
...brother had become such a good preacher in America that his father decided to send Sam, too. He studied at Dwight L. Moody's Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, spent two years on a scholarship at Amherst, and earned his B.A. at Princeton. Finally, in 1903, he set sail for India. A year later, in Bombay, he married Ethelind Cody, a cousin of Buffalo Bill...
Wear Gloves. Several years ago she described to her good friend, Msgr. Luigi Ligutti, executive secretary of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, how she had tried to emphasize "the why of religious feast days by preparing special food for the children [she has five], and explaining its significance as they ate.'' Msgr. Ligutti suggested that she make a book of her recipes. The 130 pages that resulted contain 75 recipes, liberally interlarded with explanatory background...
...Just enjoy the whole thing," said the man. "Now let's have some major action here, some minor action there . . . That's quite good . . . Go on now, really moving . . . Go right on . . . Yes, yes . . . let the action transfer to the whole body . . . Relax the shoulders . . . Hollow the chest . . . That's wonderful, wonderful! . . ." The voice became slightly breathless with excitement : "Now just gently . . . close your mouth please . . . Go on now, really moving . . . Yes, yes, YES! . . . That's so beautiful...
...around and wait between jobs, and collect 10% of their fees. It is usually the model who has to sell herself, tramping in & out of photographers' studios, showing her scrapbook, trying to look like the advertisers' cryptic specifications ("We need the soap and motherhood type"). By great good fortune she may land a movie contract.† But in most cases, she will achieve a glamourous life only in the ads she poses...