Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes he and the Duke of York flew to Sandringham. There waited the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who must attest each royal birth and death. Ready on parchment were words hailing "the high and mighty Prince" on his becoming "our only lawful and rightful Liege . . . by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India...
Last week Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Charles Michael Schwab and President Eugene Gifford Grace wrote a letter to their stockholders which began: "As you know, Bethlehem Steel Corp. is a holding company in that its assets consist chiefly of stocks and obligations of its subsidiary companies and it does not own or operate any physical properties. Its chief income, therefore, has always been in the form of dividends...
Messrs. Schwab & Grace went on to explain that, thanks to New Deal tax measures, holding companies were now something of a liability. Reasons...
...seems to exist that our choice of leaders and our general political system shall be reformed to produce intelligent leadership and administration in the crucial near future. But perhaps in the inevitable next collapse, when alone action of a drastic nature becomes possible, even mediocre men may by the Grace of God and intelligent advisers make the necessary, fundamental reforms of the capitalist and democratic systems...
...Ghost Goes West (London Films). Rene Clair's first film in English, made at Alexander Korda's London studio from a screen play by Robert Sherwood, is a satiric fantasy notable for the qualities of grace, charm and imaginative wit that have long distinguished its director's work in French. Produced by a Hungarian, written by an American, directed by a Frenchman, and acted by an English-speaking cast, it has the homogeneity of style, the smooth polish often conspicuously lacking in its Hollywood counterparts. Its most serious fault is an occasional lethargy of pace, which...