Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saint or Sinner. Smith's kingdom, as he said, was of this world. In Mormonism's early, monogamous days, big, handsome Joseph exclaimed: "Whenever I see a pretty woman, I have to pray for grace." Sometimes grace failed. A Mormon apostate published a vitriolic exposure of Joseph's clandestine marriages. Then one day, after long argument with his (original) wife, Joseph announced a new revelation ; by it, plural marriage became a part of the Mormon code, remained so until...
Recent Trend. In Queens, New York City, Mrs. Grace Raynor, collector of accident statistics, announced that the bedroom has replaced the bathroom as the room where the most accidents occur...
...there was always so much longing for companionship; indeed at the bottom of the very loneliness that made him wicked lay always the wish to love, the wish to be loved. In the end the German misfortune is only the paradigm of the tragedy of human life. And the grace that Germany so sorely needs all of us need...
...remembered Falstaff's "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." No mere butt, no mere burlesque, Richardson's fat knight is a restrained, highly intelligent, altogether conscious comedian, an artful creator of merriment. Hence his final fall from grace seems not pathetic but tragic...
Eugene G. Grace, 69, president of Bethlehem Steel since 1916, moved over to chairman of the board, a chair vacant since Charles M. Schwab died in 1939. Grace will continue as "chief executive officer." But much of the day-by-day operating will now fall on the new president, Arthur Bartlett Homer, 49. Born in Belmont, Mass., Homer graduated from Brown University and Annapolis, served in World War I as a lieutenant on submarines, joined Beth Steel in 1919. During World War II, Homer, whose hobby is sailing his 40-foot yawl, bossed Beth Steel's shipbuilding program...