Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...totalitarianism is that it shows the direct effect of the first six months of war on the U.S. people. They no longer begrudge the Government power; they merely resent Government's inefficiency. They resent contradictory estimates of the gasoline and rubber supply, but they accept rationing with good grace...
Censored this year was SEC's annual announcement of the nation's best-salaried men & women. Not in the running were the salaries of executives in war industries (including Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, who last year ranked No. 2) for fear they might give away war secrets...
There were people who could treat even the end of an era gracefully, because they knew it had to end. Vag envied them their grace...
...latest cause for pride is pretty, blonde Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, who brought a fresh, appealing voice and promising style to her Mimi, Micaela and Nedda during the last fortnight. A former telephone girl from Livingston, N.J., she later did secretarial work and scrubbed floors to pay for singing lessons. Grace Moore met her in a radio studio, took her in hand, got her into the Chicago Opera Company. Says Fortune Gallo of her: "You will find her in the Metropolitan one day. She has got what it takes...
...Park lasted four days, California's Golden Gate Park lasted five. But Mr. Mori's track will be spared close competition; it is the only race track within 25 miles of Philadelphia. Operating in midsummer, between the closing of Delaware Park and the opening of Havre de Grace, it will fill a gap in the midEastern Seaboard's horse-racing circuit. Well aware that racegoers have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer...