Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jouett Shouse was at the racetrack in Havre de Grace, Md. the day they called him to help the Democracy. He was there with his two daughters watching the horses run, laying bets, having fun. It was John Jacob Raskob on the telephone, calling from Manhattan. He had been hunting all over for Mr. Shouse and wanted him to come right up to town? very important ? national duty ? great scheme in mind?must come. Jouett Shouse went up but it took Mr. Raskob two days to argue him into shouldering the task of electing a Democratic Congress...
...very young lady lay on her back in Buckingham Palace last week and made faces at the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. Disregarding the grimaces, His Grace the Archbishop dipped his fingers in a lily-shaped solid gold font filled with water from the River Jordan and piped in an ecclesiastical treble...
...Grace Bryan Hargreaves, second daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, was happy when her oil well, "Grace Bryan No. 1," gushed in with a flow of 4,500 bbl. per day at Venice, Calif., making her one of the biggest operators in the field...
Both principals play their parts with breezy British efficiency, leaning perhaps a trifle too heavily on the sexy angle. Svelte Miss Jeans has undeniable charm, undulates across a stage with the grace of a super-Ina Claire. A nice little piece of character acting is done by David Keir, the birdlike little Scotch bailiff...
Many are the figures with a hand in Krüger's fate: blunt Autocrat Otto Klenk ("Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator...