Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticize new plays when they appear instead of awaiting their arrival in New York City? And Stars Remain opened in Washington Oct. 5 and is being reviewed in your issue of Oct. 26, fairly favorably. It's one of the poorest shows ever to grace, or disgrace, our local stage. It was one of the slowest moving shows ever to open here and if it weren't for Clifton Webb, who is the show, it probably wouldn't have opened...
Five years ago, horse racing was thrown into an uproar when a horse named Shem, who won a race at Havre de Grace at odds of 52-to-1, was proved to be not Shem but another faster horse named Aknahton, made up to resemble him by an expert "ringer" named Paddy Barrie (TIME, March 21, 1932). When the scandal was exposed, Paddy Barrie was deported and Aknahton was ruled off the track. What had become of the original Shem no one seemed to know...
From Floyd Bennett he buzzed up to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland in less than seven hours, was forced to stay there 24 hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...
Other notable steel earnings: Bethlehem Steel made $4,500,000 in the third quarter, best figure for that period since 1929. Said President Eugene Gifford Grace: "I should expect to see Bethlehem's fourth quarter at least as good as the third quarter...
Lastly, but of real significance, came the fall of the yellow journalists and the coup-de-grace of the myriad straw votes and polls. First in size and length of reach, William Randolph Hearst once more received the contemptous disdain of the people of the United States as his major candidates and platforms were universally junked. The myth of his political power, long a potent factor in American campaigns, was never more devastatingly exploded, for it proved as impotent and soiled as the man around whom it hovered. Besides the end of the Hearst hypothesis, the Literary Digest and Farm...