Word: graces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Moore, sweet singer from Jellico, Tenn. landed in Manhattan, said she would conclude her U. S. appearances posthaste and hotfoot back to Europe in the hopes of driving an ambulance, because she wants to "do something for France."* Said she: "The French are the bravest people I have ever seen, the most gallant. ... I owe so much of my artistic life to them." When Miss Moore was asked if she were a good driver, her husband, Spanish Cinemactor Valentin Perera, interrupted: "No, she isn't. I am not going to ride in her ambulance. I will have...
...week the white-whiskered old man at Doorn did pretty much as he had done every day for the past 21 years-worked a little on his memoirs, walked a little in his park, chopped a little wood. To Friederick Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, 1914 was a long way off. And the years since that morning in 1918 when they had hustled him out of Germany had been quiet years. No longer did people hate him. No longer did people want to see him hung...
...objective edition in keeping with the forgive-&-forget spirit of Locarno. The third, made in Hollywood this year by Producer Wilcox and his brightest star, Anna Neagle (Victoria the Great, Sixty Glorious Years), was apparently designed as the appeasement or Munich, version. Released last week, it seemed likely, by grace of the times and its air of Chamberlainish understatement, to become one of the most devastating and effective propaganda pictures ever made. Actress Neagle's Nurse Cavell is much as history made her, a lonely Englishwoman running a nursing home in Brussels when the German war machine spreads over...
...good wives grace those turbulent and dangerous times. One was Mariamne, sweet-tempered Jewish wife of Herod, who loved her desperately even though he let her be executed as a result of Salome's cold-blooded intrigues. The other was Amytis, wife of handsome, witty, tolerant Cyrus...
Argentina suddenly changed its trade system to one of import control, freezing foreign exports to Argentina at 1934-36 levels, then setting import quotas. With this Argentina shift toward multilateral trade, Sumner Welles in Washington and Minister Lamas in Buenos Aires could announce with good grace a proposed trade agreement...