Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once against organized crime. The new commissioner laconically remarked: "I'm not tickled to death with this job." Last of loud William Hale Thompson's appointees, retiring Commissioner Alcock held his job for six months after Mayor Cermak took office. Observers said that this period of grace was granted because Alcock refused to take orders from Mayor Thompson after Mayor Cermak was elected and before he took office. That Alcock confidently expected to be ousted sooner or later was suggested by his care not to relinquish his civil service rating as deputy commissioner. He never drew the commissioner...
...Westmont, N. J., Miss Grace Bowen. 25, New York actress, sat in the illegally parked automobile of her sister Mrs. Worthington Pfeiffer. Along came a policeman and handed Miss Bowen a summons. Miss Bowen tore up the summons, threw the pieces in the policeman's face, then slapped it. Over the head of a second policeman she broke a picture frame. The constable she bit. Her fine...
Palmy Days (United Artists). Eddie Cantor belongs to the school of clowns whose humor derives from ineffectuality; a certain eccentric excitability makes him sometimes hilariously funny. His gaiety is without grace; it lacks the thin, almost horrible insanity of the Marx Brothers and it is seldom frankly pathetic, like Chaplin's. He is a culprit from a comic strip and no one would be surprised if, when something hit him on the head, it gave the sound of "plop" or "zowie...
...Arts at Chicora College for Women in Columbia, S. C. During the year 1928-29 he substituted for Professor George Sherman ("Dickey") Dickinson in music courses at Vassar Collegeildings in fashionable Rittenhouse Square, will take care of the curriculum, edit the Institute's monthly Overtones. Like his predecessor, Dean Grace H. Spofford who resigned to do radio-educational work, he is subordinate to Director Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department. The Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime Soprano Marcella Sembrich (ill last year, she was replaced...
...Calif., with his second wife (he was divorced from the first). They have made "some rather startling experiments" in mental telepathy. Sinclair likes to play tennis, requires his secretary to be able to play a "rattling good game." His own game has been described as "the picture of confident grace." Last week, threatened with a nervous breakdown, he was taken to a hospital for rest and observations. Some other Sinclair books: King Coal, Oil!, Money Writes!, Boston, Mountain City, Roman Holiday (TIME...