Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant increased service for the citizens; particularly it has lowered tax rates. In the green land of Eire cities like Dublin, Cork, and Limerick have profited by this form of government. With everything in its favor, Cambridge voters should give careful, consideration to the referendum which now, by the grace of the Plan E Committee, will be placed upon the November ballot. They should see that a city manager is a better way of getting more for their money...
Elliott C. Bacon, John A. Baldwin, H. Call, Laurence W. Carstein, H. Irving, John Cunningham Jr., William B. Durant, Jr., Alanson T. Enos, III, John B. Fallon, F. C. S. Grace, Francis A. Harding, Jr., Charles G. Houghton Jr., C. Hovey Jr., Francis R. King, John D. Lannon Jr., D. Prouty, Henry E. Russell, Kenneth F. Sands, Benjamin A. Smith, Robert W. Tilney...
...heavily handsome President Paley has run through watercolor painting, oil painting, motorboating, airplanes, photography in rapid succession. He rushes at business with the same enthusiasm, somewhat deceptively because the impetuosity breaks down into shrewd caution whenever necessary. When anything important is at stake he chooses his words with astute grace, but he prefers the free extravagance of mixed metaphors. A favorite phrase: "Not a red dime." Youngest and oldest chief executive in the network business, he has come a long way from cigars. He now smokes cigarets...
Although Lazaro Cardenas is a poor, mumbling speaker without Latin fire or grace, the General brought Mexico's pistol-toting Congressmen to their feet shouting "Viva!" again & again last week. They saw at once that with almost every word President Cardenas was baiting Secretary Hull. Mr. Hull had laid down in diplomatic terms that it is a violation of international law for Mexico to expropriate without immediate compensation. General Cardenas laid down in non-diplomatic terms that what Mexico has done is "for the greatest good of the greatest number of people," and said that in international law there...
Three Loves Has Nancy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). As a Southern chit whose sweetheart has failed to turn up on their wedding day, Janet Gaynor invades New York to bowl over those pillars of penthouse society, Franchot Tone and Robert Montgomery, with naive charm best exemplified when she says grace in a night club...