Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia's Grace Baptist Temple, with its seating capacity of 3,000, was built for the late Russell Herman Conwell, noted for the sermon "Acres of Diamonds" which he delivered 6,152 times. Ever since he died in 1925, the Temple has been looking for "another Conwell." Dr. A. Ray Petty, who came in 1926, shocked his flock by inviting Negroes and again, when 50 parishioners started to walk out on a sermon defending Al Smith, by directing the organist to follow their steps with Chopin's Funeral March. Dr. Petty was soon replaced by Dr. Michael Joseph...
Last week, as he made ready to re-enter the pulpit, "Dan" Poling was 51, just beginning to grey. Since he is no Baptist, the congregation of Grace Temple expected him to make less use of their 60-foot marble immersion tank where white carnations are kept floating during baptismal services. Dr. Poling will probably omit flowers, allow a microphone to overshadow the tank...
Abram Hewitt's son, Peter Cooper Hewitt, inherited and brought to full fruition the inventive genius of his Grandfather Cooper. The late, great Michael Pupin marveled not only at the imaginative brilliance of his mind but also at his extraordinary physical grace, especially marked in the deftness of his hands. Rich and unorthodox in his methods, he invented the widely-used mercury vapor lamp, discovered the basic principle of the vacuum-tube amplifier, made many an other prime contribution to electricity and radio. He also pioneered in the development of hydro-airplanes, speedboats, aerial torpedoes, heliocopters. He died...
...Should Lose You, Little Rose of the Rancho, The Vigilante Song, Where Is My Love. By her singing Contralto Swarthout makes it clear that, in the current operatic sweepstakes, she will not be out distanced by the Hollywood field. She is less buoyant than Columbia's blonde Grace Moore, but she has more chic. MGM's svelte Jeanette MacDonald may do better in her underwear, but Contralto Swarthout's throat muscles do not wiggle. Over RKO's little Lily Pons, she has the definite advantage of being able to talk English...
Racketeer Canarelli has been a big depositor in Littenham's bank, and when the U. S. goes off the gold standard and Littenham takes advantage of the days of grace to ship all his gold to Canada by airplane, Canarelli naturally wants a cut. In the ensuing lawsuit, held in Megapolis, Littenham's lawyer argues "that it was a fact, proved by precedent, that American millionaires were not citizens of the United States but were autonomous powers coordinate with the federal government. That they therefore could not be arraigned and tried before the national courts but were subject...