Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asia Minor. Egypt contributed to the cold, finely modeled formalism of Youth from Andros. But the linear energy of The Cottenham Relief, a horse and horseman, was closer to real life than anything the Egyptians produced (see cuts). To the Greeks, gods were fairly human, and human strength and grace were godly characteristics. At the roots their religion remained anthropocentric-man was the center of the universe and the measure of all things...
Susan and Slick are the chief characters in Ethel Vance's new novel. In two previous novels, Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939) and Reprisal (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942), Author Vance, who under her real name (Grace Zaring Stone) also wrote The Bitter Tea of General Yen, has used her talent for melodrama to best-selling effect. .But Winter Meeting is quite a different kind of book-a brief, sharp study of the way in which lives may be turned upside down in the twinkling...
...Died. Grace Marguerite Lethbridge, Lady Hay-Drummond-Hay, 50, peacetime British aviatrix, wartime Girl Friday (through Jap captivity in Manila) to Hearst's aged (72), No. 1 Foreign Correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand; of coronary thrombosis ; in Manhattan...
With classic grace enmeshing classic...
...days of grace before the new rules became effective, the market had its busiest days in over five years. Trading was at the rate of 700,000 shares an hour, almost as much as had been traded in an entire day a year ago. Dow-Jones industrial averages rose to 205, fell off only when the steel strike became certain...