Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of Virginia's Democratic bigwigs turned up with greetings from rebel Governor William M. Tuck. All grace, Dewey replied: "Please give my best regards to Governor Tuck who is a Republican at heart." Then he renewed his courtship of the state's G.O.P. delegation. Harold Stassen blew into town a few hours later on the same errand; Dewey lit out for North Carolina without crossing his path...
...Detroit's Garden City school board dismissed Mrs. Grace Flood for choking her pupils, beating their heads against the wall, taping their mouths, tying them to their seats. Defending her, four other teachers testified that her disciplinary technique was used by other teachers...
...physical set-up at the Connecticut training camp is of comparatively recent inception, being the result of a 1929 decision by a group of "Old Blues" who felt that the old buildings were inadequate. Now a string of white shingled structures--three dwellings, a dinning hall, and a boathouse--grace the secluded slopes less than a mile south of Yale's head-quarters at Gale's Ferry...
...Fiorenza," said a Toronto Tory last week, "is the best thing that ever happened to George." She has an easy grace and charm; her husband is reserved: his enemies call him haughty. In a recent 4,000-mile campaign swing through the Lakehead and northern Ontario Mrs. Drew made scores of speeches on the same platform with the Premier. "I just stand up and chat," says Fiorenza. "I don't get into the issues of the election. I let George do that." She was a big success. Said one of her listeners: "A lot of people, if they...
...month since a shotgun blast shattered his right arm, U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther had been living in a quiet, antiseptic nightmare. In Detroit's new Grace Hospital he lay with the upper part of his body in a plaster cast, his bad arm held aloft by cords and pulleys. Occasionally he was given electric shocks to keep the arm from stiffening. He slept less than two hours in 24-his pain was continuous and doctors were afraid that sedatives might hamper his recovery...