Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the vaselike construction of her pelvic bones, a woman, moving on her legs, must inevitably waddle. Some, as a result of careful rehearsal or athletic exercise, achieve a grace in waddling; almost none manage to run. In San Francisco a fortnight ago Miss Wanda Danley equaled the female world's record for a 100-yard dash ?11 2/5 seconds. This phenomenal pace could be equaled or eclipsed by almost any lean-shanked prep-school lad who is accounted a runner...
Beauty lives in speed-the rhythm of a piece of sculpture; the style of a racing thoroughbred; the bright, scrupulous cruelty of an accomplished boxer. It has been proved a thousand times that neither this speed nor the grace that is its afterglow has much to do with efficiency-that the clumsy nag can often travel fastest, the hardest hitter win-but men persist in betting on good form. This was illustrated one damp evening last spring in a Manhattan boxing ring (TIME, June...
...half-house the rent of which he had paid as City Councillor, Mayor, State Legislator, Lieutenant-Governor, Governor, Vice President ?and which, as President, he owns. He had come that he might see, and that his wife might see a sternly sweet old lady. Elmira, mother of Grace Goodbue. Thin white hair gathered closely about her head, broad white lace neatly pinned about throat, an erect figure in which much strength remains-that is what one would have seen had he steepped indoors with the President...
...that is artistic without being vulgar and is the one ac- tress today who can wink without being suggestive. She has the grace that even Duse did not have...
...Brookline. Gerald Patterson for Australia - a tall sleek giant, epitomizing in his person all the large-limbed grace and slow-footedness of the western peoples-op-posed Takeichi Harada for Japan, a man like a brown jumping-jack. Patterson drove his mighty shots into the net, swacked them over the backline, was tidily defeated but his teammates, Anderson and Hawkes, won all their matches, eliminated Japan from the Davis Cup tryouts. Australia was scheduled to oppose France to see which will face...