Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Same day Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace was publicized as second-highest-paid U.S. executive, fiery septuagenarian Spinster Zara du Pont, munitions family maverick and Bethlehem stockholder, sued him, the corporation and 17 other Bethlehem officers and directors for $1,000,000, charging wasteful expenditures of that amount for labor-baiting...
Though issued to take effect immediately, the regulations provided 90 days of grace for sale or disposal of properties. Not all radiomen were in utter despair. There was President Roosevelt who has always patted radio's head; and the listeners were get ting a better break than any others in the world. Maybe, with the war and everything, it would all blow over...
...loud, raucous, spicy entertainment--was the bill of fare, and avid Freshmen gobbled their dish in glee. The Jones Brothers cleared the way for the evening's queens with a knowing, "now we understand each other, gentlemen." Although stripped of her bubbles and feathers. Sally Rand uncorked with deft grace the long suppressed libidos of exam-plagued undergraduates. Yvette proved to be the program's chief charmstress with her soulful renditions of several French airs, and the Mad Russian, an amazing fire juggler, capped on a fitting climax...
...elsewhere in the world, the war has at least brought closer cooperation and a friendlier understanding between China's different Christian groups. On Easter Sunday Chungking Christians celebrated their first interdenominational service at the American Grace Community Church. Catholic Bishop Paul Yu was the preacher. In Canton, Roman Catholics, Protestants and Salvation Army officers have combined their refugee work...
...would have brought every brave from sixteen to sixty in the whole Five Nations to lay venison and beads at her feet. Singing opposite her in the role of Jim Kenyon, Alexander Grey is a somewhat lesser figure, but quite good enough in his own right. The dances of Grace Poggi as the sensuous young half-breed girl leave little more to be desired, especially the well-known "Totem Pole" number. All in all, "Rose Marie" is still very pleasant escapism for a troubled world...