Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could have to pay for his artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational Metropolitan debut seven years ago (TIME, March 1, 1926) For four years Miss Talley...
Jackson got a ladder and climbed up to the Duke's window, calling "Where is Your Grace?" There was no answer, much smoke and belching flame. Hours later a policeman found burned to a crisp in "The Heronry's" pantry all that was left of Prince Louis. Said Mr. McCormick to newsmen: "I think the Duke, blinded by smoke, missed his way to the stairs, blundered into a corner room and was overcome. When the floor was burned through the body must have fallen into the pantry below...
...Tibbett had twin sons by his first wife, Grace Mackay Smith, who worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study. When rich & famed, Tibbett got a divorce. His present wife, Jennie, had three sons by her first husband, John Clark Burgard, San Francisco broker and sportsman...
...Were roused from their customary lethargy by three dukes who scathingly attacked the anti-lottery laws under which His Grace the Duke of Atholl was fined ?25 for conducting a nation-wide charity lottery which realized ?152,000 (TIME...
...reasons one may well wish that the habit be continued, even though its paragon pass into limbo. It may be charged with having an anaesthetic tendency; a Marxist might even call it an opiate of the upper classes. But from this comes its virtue of being harmless, its saving grace; deans, parents, all thinking people can say of it, as they say of the abolition of religion, what can take its place to keep people out of mischief? How right they...