Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...halo, this same body might do well to review the legislation that has put the Roxas government on its own. This legislation might throw a sudden chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill has given Manila just eight years grace from American tariff restrictions and, to the sugar growers of Luzon, this means that in eight years the sugar will rot on the waterfronts and even the brand new Constitution won't buy the rice or balance the books...
With the know-how under his hat and the dyes and designs in his work bag, Bailey set up a laboratory-workshop in suburban Lima. Using workmen whom he and his blonde Peruvian artist-colleague Grace Escardo trained themselves, Bailey was soon producing a great variety of cleanly designed, finely wrought textiles, lacquer-work, silver, wooden utensils, even furniture...
...exploits of the great adventurers of his time, the sea dogs and explorers, Campion's brief achievement may appear modest enough; but these were tough men, ruthlessly hardened by upbringing, gross in their recreations. Campion stands out from even his most gallant and chivalrous contemporaries . ._. by the supernatural grace that...
...mind of Campion's biographer, supernatural grace clearly bears a relation to a certain kind of gaiety. It would be interesting to know how Catholic critics might relate it to the gaiety and polish, unique in modern English writing, of A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited. To judge by Brideshead, at any rate, Evelyn Waugh may sense a similarity between his mission as a writer of comedy and Campion's as a priest: "to crie alarme spiritual against foul vice and proud ignorance, wherewith many my dear Countrymen are abused...
...Ambition. Success was a long time coming. At 16, he ran away from the Irish-Christian Brothers School in New Rochelle, N.Y. to join his mother, oldtime Actress Grace Hayes, in a Broadway variety act. All through the '30s he played theaters and saloons, had parts in 15 movies (13 B, two A). In 1940 he married Actress Mary Healy, now starring in Orson Welles's Broadway extravaganza, Around the World (TIME, June...