Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Equipoise: his first race of the season, the Philadelphia Handicap, for a $7,500 purse that brought his total winnings to $273,585; at Havre de Grace...
...colt Ladysman, champion two-year-old of 1932 and favorite for this year's Kentucky Derby: his first race this year, against a field of ten including seven Derby eligibles; by half a length, with Rush Hour second; at the opening day of the Havre de Grace (Md.) track...
...paupers of an earlier period. He is Jonathan Peachum, director general of London's beggars, who finally persuades Sheriff Brown to hang his good friend Captain Macheath because the erring captain has won the heart of Jonathan's daughter Polly. Robert Chisholm (Sweet Adeline) plays Macheath with grace, not in the costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna, who in Hungary was called "Steffi, the Wonder Child." Pert Miss Duna, whose elfin face looks not unlike Sylvia Sidney's, played in Noel Coward...
...Todd sent reproductions to the Pope, to Albert, King of the Belgians, and to Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Bishop of Liverpool, who recently led some fellow churchmen HI demanding more virile pictures of Christ (TIME, Feb. 27). Praised in the Federal Council Bulletin for its "strength, charm, grace, courage," The Nazarene will be placed in the Hall of Religion at Chicago's World's Fair next summer. This Sunday, 1900th anniversary of Christ's Resurrection, it will figure in an unusual Easter service...
Though Jewry has given the world many a magnum opus, including Christendom's best-known book, few true-blue Jewish novels aim at or succeed in putting Christian readers in a state of grace. Solal does just that; it is a wild, melodramatic romance, stuffed with grotesque comedy, Old Testament lamentations, sensual psalms, shrewd cynicism and shrewder kindliness, ending finally in pure parable. When Solal appeared in Paris in 1930, even the French literary press sputtered : "A great Jewish novel . . . a great book . . . tumultuous . . . explosive . . . overbrimming...