Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hamilton's idea--the common theme of a man committing crimes he cannot remember afterward--has been deprived of the psychiatric simplicity which was its saving grace...
THIRD FLEET Reese (Dodgers) ss. Grace (Browns) If. McCosky (Tigers) cf. Fletcher (Braves) Ib. Woodling (Indians) rf. Herman (Dodgers) 2b. May (Phillies) 3b. Smith (Pirates) c. Rigney (White Sox)-p. White (Tigers)p. Trexler (Braves...
Bethlehem Steel bucked the trend, upped its net profit to $36,200,000 v. $32,100,000. But this was due chiefly to a difference of opinion on how much the retroactive wage increase to workers would cost. Beth Steel's Grace tucked away $6,500,000 for the wage reserve, while Big Steel's Fairless put away...
...Tempest, with its wonderful language, words speak louder than actions; not everybody in the Webster production knew how to utter them. Arnold Moss was a sonorous and commanding Prospero, Frances Heflin a sensitive Miranda. But as Ariel, Ballerina Vera Zorina let a good many speeches dwindle, and her grace was cold rather than sunlit. As Caliban, Negro Actor Canada Lee could not (like Shakespeare) make poetry of ugliness. Stressing the rather dull comedy also shattered the mood; the revolving stage was more practical than atmospheric. This generation may never see a livelier Tempest; it may well see a lovelier...
...milder among his opponents, he is a latter-day Richelieu, moving suavely and powerfully behind the scenes, establishing his own court favorites or giving the knife to those fallen from grace. Extreme critics have pictured him as a kind of Svengali, whose sinister influence covers sinister designs on the President and the country. Others say he is a man of no principles who simply acts through (and hides behind) his idolized principal, the President...