Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lohengrin are heavy, Teutonic, have small flare for acting. That a knight should trouble to rescue them is often unbelievable. But at the new Chicago Civic Opera House last week an audience was pleasurably surprised. The Elsa .who came pathetically before the king was slender, lovely, of exceeding grace. That her voice was commensurately light mattered little to those who watched her. She used it as skillfully as she did her hands...
...whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was and is the prime personification of Prussian Kultur as it conceived itself to be ? Feld marschall August von Mackensen...
...belong to those ungrateful ones who forget what the Kaiser has done for the Army and for the Fatherland's prestige. . . . He was our best comrade. ... I owe my successes to the grace of my Emperor who appointed...
Said she pithily: "A car goes up slanting." In 1920, at 93, she had pneumonia and erysipelas, but pulled through. Her 100th birthday was triumphantly celebrated with a party in her honor, at which she said a lengthy grace in a firm loud voice, while 41 descendants bowed their heads. Nearly two years later she died quietly...
Last month United States Steel Corp. absorbed Columbia (TIME, Nov. 11). Last week Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Gifford Grace, then in San Francisco, announced his company would acquire Pacific Coast Steel and its subsidiary...