Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the others whom Hodder will call upon will be Gorham, Perkins, Coleman, Wood, Ogle, Grace, Graves, dePourtales and Rousmaniere...
Lily Pons is our favorite singer. Her voice is of surprising beauty, and it is a delight to hear her run up and down the scale and slide long and clearly on bar E. Jeannette McDonald and Grace Moore come nowhere near the charming and unaffected little French girl who sparkles in every scene like a jewel. Add Jack Oakie, Mischa Auer, and some elegant swing by Andre Kostelanetz and you've got something, "That Girl From Paris" to be exact...
...Just think of it!" crowed President Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel fortnight ago after announcing his company's 1936 profits. "We earned a net of $13,901,000 last year against $4,291,000 in 1935, and started 1937 with $123,690,000 of unfilled orders on our books. We have never faced anything like so good a situation in peace times. Why, we started the extraordinary year of 1929 with only $86,000,000 of unfilled orders on our books...
Even more remarkable than his figures was Mr. Grace's own exuberance. Perhaps to counterbalance the perennial cheer of his colleague, Bethlehem's aging Chairman Charles Michael Schwab, hard-boiled Mr. Grace in interviews or statements is usually given to gloom. In his Manhattan office Mr. Grace now proudly declared: "We had tried in our December distributions to both preferred and common stockholders to use up all profits . . . on account of the tax on undistributed surplus. But we missed by a wide mark. We will pay to the Government about a quarter of a million dollars under that...
...amiable, phlegmatic, intuitively shrewd young Roman Catholic recently and rapidly wooed a pretty, alert, decisive young Protestant who is every bit as horsy as His Grace-and in all England there is no horsier aristocrat or plebeian than Norfolk-the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 20, daughter of the 3rd Baron...