Word: grace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Clothes Hanger. Working with a less accomplished model, the photographer might spend hours trying to prod and push her into the proper pose. But not with Lisa. With a dancer's discipline and grace, she responds instantly to the photographer's every direction, almost before it is spoken. Her body (bust and hips 34 in.) is so supple that she can pull in her normally 23-inch waist to 18 inches. She has the gift of mimicry every good model needs, and a keen fashion sense. Once, she appeared 103 times in a single issue...
...best of Van Dyck's portraits would live as long as the paint stayed on the canvas. Seen in the cold, impersonal surroundings of the Koninklijk Museum last week, they looked a little ill at ease, for they had been intended to grace warmer, more elegant worlds. But the paintings themselves had warmth and elegance enough to make 17th Century history, and to make the people who strutted through it come alive...
...June 1913, on the tenth anniversary of his wedding, Gentleman-Farmer Sidney Tate lunched on Irish stew at his club and took stock of his marriage. He was a mild-mannered New York socialite who had come to Fort Penn, Pa. to marry rich, handsome, socially top-flight Grace Caldwell and had settled down to a provincial life of quiet opulence. His survey satisfied...
...This is a good marriage. I love my wife and I am confident she loves me...She loves me in bed, and she never shows the slightest interest in any other men..." Four years later, Grace Tate made love to the son of a local Irish politician in the back seat of her car. When people found out, as people will, the Tate marriage was ruined and so was Grace's life...
...GRACE SHEA...