Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Aïda, and Melba arias from Romeo and Juliet; Tetrazzini and John McCormack in a duet from The Barber of Seville. Then came the evening's climax: the much-bruited new Russian ballet, whose 21-year-old star, Vaslav Nijinsky, had all Europe abuzz with the grace of his dancing and the power of his leaps. That night, London's applause was added to the Continent...
Vaslav Nijinsky came back to England. At 57, the grace and ease were no longer in his step and his round Slavic face showed the pallor of years of illness and the vacuity of long insanity. Dressed in a dark blue suit, which looked incongruous on him, he shuffled aimlessly along with his male attendant, and Romola, his devoted wife...
George Hauptfuhrer roamed the court with his usual cat-like grace, swishing five fieldgoals and four charity tosses for a point total of 14, and doing his best to steady the Crimson. His efforts were not nearly enough...
Twenty-two more meters are about to grace the north side of Mount Auburn Street between Boylaton and Linden Streets. They will be ready for operation in less than a week, said a Police Department employee who was present at the inaugural annihilation of the old brick sidewalks yesterday evening...
...famed "Lubitsch touch" from the late wunderbare Producer-Director Max Reinhardt and left it on a score of sophisticated implausibilities (Monte Carlo, Ninotchka, Cluny Brown); of a heart ailment; in Bel-Air, Calif. Lubitsch, whose German-made Gypsy Blood and Passion brought Emil Jannings, Pola Negri and a grace-note style of cinema comedy to the U.S. in 1919, was one of the first European directors to earn-and keep-Hollywood's cash-&-carry respect...