Word: graces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anything to Oblige. In Los Angeles, when police told Mrs. Grace Smith that they couldn't arrest her husband for assault without sufficient evidence, Smith, who had wanted a little privacy anyway, stepped right up and socked...
...this he ignored. In his right hand, outthrust before him, were three eggs, the offering he was bringing to the Virgin of Guadelupe at her shrine in Mexico City's suburb of Tepeyac. "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus," he chanted as he walked with eyes half-closed. And behind him a chorus, 7,000 voices strong, took up the chant of the rosary: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners...
...above all others, has made life all but impossible for independent Argentine newspapers and newsmen was made honorary president of the Argentine Press Syndicate last week. President Juan Domingo Perón accepted the honor with bland grace-and no wonder. Like their new head, members of the Peronista-minded syndicate believe that the press should be the tool of government, not an instrument of freedom...
Howdy, Mr. Ice has. besides, some engaging newcomers: the 1948 Olympics' pretty Eileen Seigh, a figure skater of uncommon grace and skill; Former Model Jinx Clark; Jazz Skater Rudy Richards, who jitterbugs remarkably, but with the slight-and highly welcome-touch of restraint that ice and skates impose. Even more rewarding are two such Center standbys as Skippy Baxter, who can skate both very fast and fancy, and Freddie Trenkler, for whose great comic shenanigans familiarity only breeds admiration...
...judge," Sargent once said of his portraits. "I only chronicle." Whether he liked it or not, Sargent's faithful chronicles, with all their style and grace, are what he is remembered for, a quarter century later...