Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart and a twisted foot kept husky Ernest Elmer Baker out of the War, but he got to Germany after it was over. There, according to his mother, "he fell from grace." Back in Menard, Tex., where he worked occasionally at bricklaying, Ernest Elmer Baker made up for his lapse by the zeal with which he took up Pentecostalism in 1933. Pentecostalists roll on the floor and believe that prayer will cure anything, even a sliced artery (TIME, July 23) or a rattlesnake bite (TIME, Aug. 20). Last year Ernest Elmer Baker, 38, got the idea that it would cure...
Thus within a fortnight Grace Moore had become London's latest rage. But her triumph lacked the approval of British critics who refused to be swayed by popular demonstrations. Not one of them would pronounce Grace Moore a great singer or even a beguiling actress. The Daily Express said: "Miss Moore was definitely a success, although her voice lacked something of the spiritual quality the part should have. . . ." The London Times summed up critical opinion when it said: "On the interpretative side Miss Moore had no vocal style to rank with those of her illustrious predecessors. . . . The ends...
...Grace Moore is not one to be down-carted by what the critics say or to be too puffed up over the presence of royalty in the audience. After her command performance last week she told the Press: "I have sung before six Kings and three Presidents so last night was no novelty. . . . I had long and interesting talks with the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York. . . ." As for the King and Queen: "Maybe I've already met them but I'm not telling...
...Grace Moore has, most critics agree, a smooth pleasant voice, a pretty face, a fine figure, an abundance of vitality and a driving ambition. She ran away from finishing school in Washington, D. C. to go on the stage, against her parents' wishes. She made a Broadway name in the Music Box Revue. Aspiring to Metropolitan Opera, she had a potent friend in the late Otto Kahn. Most critics were indifferent when they heard her there. But she stayed three years, studied hard, paid the claque well. The Metropolitan label proved a sure entrée to radio...
...year in jail, $5,000 fine. Bankers dispatched telegrams to Congress, wrote letters, even went to Washington. Last week June 16 came & went but no banker was jailed for nonpayment of his loan. In time's nick Congress had passed a resolution giving the borrowers three years of grace, moving the deadline for repayment ahead to June...