Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rente Mueller, as Vilma, is still her charming self. As usual, she flits about with a certain light airy grace, and makes herself attractive and delightful. She also sings several pleasant little songs of a sentimental nature...
...which is consistently productive of nothing but failure should be abandoned. It remains to be whether in the event of a new upheaval in Cuba Mr. Roosevelt will have the strength of will to toss the demonstrably unworkable and outmoded Stimson Doctrine into the ashcan which it would certainly grace-better than it does the minds of State Department savants, and recognize as graciously as possible any government howsoever radical that is established. Such an attitude would have a salutary effect that would make the settlement of the fundamental problem of the fate of foreign capital in Cuba immeasurably easier...
...Robert Riggs lithographs now on exhibition at the Grace Horn Galleries are good examples of the work of the man generally considered to be Claude Bellow's most able successor. Concerning themselves solely with the prize ring, the ten lithographs form an excellent instance of what can be accomplished by capable mediocrity when given an opportunity to express itself. Mr. Riggs has been clever enough to realize the wealth of artistic material in the vigorous, stinking lewdness of the small-time professional ring, and although he is hampered by a lack of highly skilled technical ability, he has succeeded well...
Even at Harvard some things end. Comptroller Endicott is not the first of the old guard to fade from the Harvard picture; he will not be the last. An officer modelled on the lines of an Endicott would slip with little grace into an underling's post beneath a new financial vice-president. It is fitting that the Comptroller should prefer oblivion to ignominy...
...means the least striking of the bill's provisions is that one which would entrust to the Department of Labor the responsibility for determining what constitutes superior talent and what actors are sufficiently distinguished to grace the American stage. Tremendously flattered though the Department may be to find itself designated as dramatic critic for the nation, the fact remains that art has never lent itself very well to government supervision. The ban on Ulysses, which was the result of the cultural prejudices of a certain inspector of customs in New York is a good example of the sort of thing...