Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennessee-born Singer Grace Moore arrived in Manhattan with a Tennessee ham, was asked by photographers to pose with it. As she did so, her pressagent warned: "You know what the caption will be: a couple of Tennessee hams...
...some of the same sculptors and good work by several up-&-coming candidates. To those who attended the great exhibition of American sculpture at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1929, these shows were striking evidence of how far modern sculpture has drifted from marble grace toward the representation of massive "primitive" simplicity, in a multitude of materials...
...decorate the head tables along with such non-capitalists as Eddie Rickenbacker, Bishop Manning, Bruce Barton and Sinclair Lewis, are such household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Steelman Eugene Grace. Copperman Louis Shattuck Gates and many and many another manager of major corporations. Even the rank & file clustered at the common tables will read like a Directory of Directors. And through the rich blue haze of New Waldorf cigars, the nation's manufacturers will listen to the first woman...
...same type of magazines in a very short while. I close with this question to you, the editors of TIME: Are these few dollars you receive worth the damage you might have done or might do to many thousands of human beings? I pray to God to give you grace to see the light...
English Critic Frank Swinnerton has said that Huxley "may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come." However much they admire Huxley's encyclopedic knowledge and acid wit, followers are likely to balk at the regimen he lays down for those who want to achieve a "scientific-mystical conception of the world." It includes meditation, love, compassion, intelligence, moderation, physical fitness, chastity, which the ex-idol of sophisticates defines as "one of the major virtues." The energy created by sexual restraint "is the motive power which makes...