Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authorities at Buenos Aires could do little more for people without visas. The most they could do was let them ashore, confine them to the rambling brownstone Hotel de Inmigrantes. The Argentine Government gave the refugees 90 days' grace. Perhaps in that time they could find a country that would let them...
...these booklets (price 50?) are: a quixotic Christmas story about a dog named Lulu illustrated by Cartoonist Jane Miller; an anecdotal account of a Christmas party in the bleak Alaskan wilderness by Rockwell Kent; a book of Van Loony pictures and Christmas carols by Hendrik van Loon and Pianist Grace Castagnetta...
...struggle was between Grace and Lewis. Reporters outside knew well that Purnell and Fairless were inclined to sign with Lewis. But Lewis is Grace's devil, and vice versa. They have a long record of hatred, these two-the smooth, hard-boiled man whose income has averaged about $600,000 a year for 23 years, who was condemned blisteringly by William Howard Taft, a World War 1 chief of the War Labor Board, for wrecking a hard-won labor agreement; and the huge, hard-boiled man who has seldom been down a mine in the last 20 years...
Spring" Again (by Isabel Leighton & Bertram Bloch; produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) becomes a funny comedy about an hour and a half after the curtain rises. Until then it pants and puffs, nervously broad-jumping from joke to joke and depending for interest on the deft performance of Comedienne Grace George (The Circle, Kind Lady). When, at the end of Act II, it suddenly bolts forward like a race horse that has been given the whip, it's a little too late for it to be in the money...
Sued for Divorce. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; in Woodstock, Vt.; grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years, they appeared in opposite corners of a public ring last summer when Interventionist Dorothy learned Lewis was plugging America First. Of his wife Lewis cracked to a Chicago lecture audience in 1939: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...