Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacle combines the glitter and grace of an ice show, the hell-for-leather horsemanship of a rodeo, the martial pageantry of a Veterans Day parade, and the breath-stopping violence of the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The men are ruggedly masculine, and the girls are worth bringing binoculars...
...Deputies. This necessitated a retrial. But Tommie Massie and Honolulu's entire Navy Establishment were indignant. Egged on by his wife's mother, Grace Fortescue, a woman of good connections and considerable gentility, the lieutenant decided to speed up the clock of the law. Two Navy enlisted men, Albert Jones and Edward Lord, were "deputized" as his assistants. One of the defendants, Joe Kahahawai, an amateur boxer, was enticed to Mrs. Fortescue's rented home with a phony police summons and shot to death. Mrs. Fortescue, Massie and one of the Navy ratings were caught hauling Kahahawai...
...Hearst papers promptly dubbed Kahahawai's murder "the honor slaying"; New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson sent Grace Fortescue a cable that summed up the prevailing public sentiment: ADMIRATION AND SYMPATHY. In this highly charged atmosphere, the "honor slayers" faced trial for second-degree murder, confidently hired the great Clarence Darrow to defend them...
Last year W. R. Grace & Co. recorded its first billion-dollar sales figure, with profits of $45 million. And Peter Grace has every expectation that his new beer company will contribute to a bubbly future. The Miller Brewing Co. last year reported a record profit of $7,200,000 on sales of about $99 million. That being the case, why was Mrs. Mulberger willing to sell? She had a very special reason. A former Catholic and a divorcee, she now attends an Independent Fundamental church in Wisconsin. "The brewery was not the will of God for me," she said. "That...
...usual string of names and introductions, was soon in conference with King Idris working out an oil concession. Phillips' original 3% interest in the 9,000-sq,-mi. concession has been lost to sight in a series of transfers. The concession is now held by W. R. Grace & Co. and Sinclair Oil, and the field operator is Standard Oil of New Jersey. None of these companies deals directly with Phillips, but he is believed to be drawing from $100,000 to $200,000 annually from royalties on the Ra-guba well, which is producing 95,000 bbl. daily...