Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Wolvey conducted herself with as much grace and poise as her charming mistress. After a dramatic half hour she convinced the gallery as well as Judge Herman Mellenthin that she deserved the show-dog championship...
...Last week W. R. Grace & Co.'s Cecil Kern began a campaign to lower the U.S. duty, kill the quota regulations on Peru's long-staple cotton. These limitations (dear to U.S. cotton Congressmen) normally keep U.S. imports to only 4,000 bales out of Peru's total crop of over 300,000 bales...
...Dying. While he got ready for the flight, a deep longing possessed Saint-Exupéry to survive into the night, wherein "I might discover why it is I ought to die." He felt "like a Christian abandoned by grace." He knew he was about to do a job "honorably," but "as one honors ancient rites when they have no longer any significance...
...West Coast valued safety more than vegetables, more than the comfort or livelihood of foreigners who might be innocent but were still foreigners. Francis Biddle's measures struck most West Coast citizens, indeed, as wishy-washy, especially in giving aliens one to three weeks of grace to move from restricted zones. From California's Attorney General Earl Warren, from 100 sheriffs and district attorneys and from Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron came a demand that all enemy aliens be removed at least 200 miles inland. The Los Angeles County Defense Council wanted them all interned...
...played Romeo to his blooming daughter Diana's Juliet. He had coached her for a week and she was good. In the brief respite from radio routine, everyone felt the bond between father and daughter, the oddity of the old love poetry, the Shakespearean depths of grace...