Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yankee Clipper costs $12.26. The train, all Pullman, is in two sections of seven cars, each named after a famed oldtime clipper ship. To suggest the sea, car interiors are blue-green. Windows open like windows in limousines, are said by the company not to stick. One Grace Harriet McKay, great-granddaughter of Clipper Ship Builder Donald McKay, christened the train in Manhattan's Grand Central Station. A band of Red Caps played...
Thirteen musical numbers are featured in the show aside from the specialty entertainments of Harding and Edwards and a Hawaiian trio. Dancing choruses, executing professional routines with a manly grace unknown to the Broadway stage, will also be a feature of every musical number in the production...
...Bethlehem v. Eaton over Youngstown combat first began in a long conference, attended by the three chiefs and their seconds. Apparently Mr. Eaton convinced them that his was no feeble gesture, for at the end of eight and a half hours he came out grinning while Mr. Grace and Mr. Campbell clambered down 20 floors of fire-escape to avoid newsgatherers...
...Widener collections or the Huntington collection in California, the purchases of an intelligent man obediently following the advice of a corps of experts, but expressed the very personal tastes of Mr. & Mrs. Havemeyer. Given the money and the opportunity, almost anyone would have bought the superb Rembrandts that grace the Havemeyer collection, but at the same time Mrs. Havemeyer was eagerly following the suggestion of her good friend, the late great Mary Cassatt,* and assembling the 36 pictures and 69 bronzes which make up probably the finest collection of Degas in the world...
...that still holds sway at many Eastern colleges. Yale and Princeton, for example, are even more hidebound in demanding the full number of units in one of these languages at school; both demand further one year of college work in the Classics, but this last has at least the grace of making the student's eventual degree to some extent dependent on his college studies...