Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were West Coast dockside workers. The Government offered them $1.37 an hour, whereas 700 A.F.L. longshoremen on the same coast get $1.38. Bridges wanted that extra cent. He stayed balky until it was too late to prevent walkouts in all major U.S. ports, then gave in with bad grace. There was an untidy rash of local stoppages which lasted until the seven unions involved could get their scattered locals to ratify the deal. Last to act were Bridges' longshoremen. After all, the deal covers them only until September 30, when their contract expires, and they can threaten to strike...
...Detroit, pretty Miss Mary Grace Simescu, queen of the Automotive Golden Jubilee, sneaked out of her parents' house before dawn, met a handsome ex-Navy flier named Clifton W. Woodry, eloped with him. The parents were pleased but slightly bewildered. She had been engaged to him all the time...
Hearstlings Walter Winchell and Cholly Knickerbocker broke the news: "Her Grace" was about to remarry. The supposed groom-to-be: Charles Andrews Munroe, 71, retired midwest utilitycoon and international-setter. Almost immediately the item withered. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Son Cornelius Jr., quoted by the World-Telegram: ". . . too silly for words." Mrs. Vanderbilt, quoted by Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "It's all nonsense!" Mrs. Morin Hare, supposed matron-of-honor-to-be, to reporters: "It's fantastic . . . ridiculous . . . an outrage . . ." Mrs. Hare added: "We're taking her up to Newport...
...soft Vermont twang, and is apt to preface his thoughts with a "seems like. . . ." (Says he: "My ancestry is free from all blemish. All my forefathers* earned an honest living as farmers, wheelwrights and coopers. I was absolutely the first one in seven generations to fall from grace...
...Grace Moore, bubbly blonde operatic soprano, was back from a European tour. Laryngitis had forced her to skip a concert at London's Albert Hall, and she had a fine prima-donna tribute for the audience. "The audience was simply marvelous," she said, "accepting my apologies and listening instead to Marjorie Lawrence...