Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goldilocked Soprano Grace Moore, who has announced that she will retire after the war, "to help with the reconstruction work that must follow," sang Fiora, the ove of two of the three kings. Chicago had heard her in the part, but for her, the Met and Montemezzi, it was a belated reunion, [n 1923, when Soprano Moore was in the Music Box Revue, Montemezzi coached her for a Metropolitan audition, and she vowed that some day she would sing in his opera. Well she sang it, but she postured in stained-glass attitudes, walked in the gait of a woman...
...kind to a U. S. university, 109 men & women of seven South American countries (Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay) had arrived to spend their summer in a special six-week "summer school" at North Carolina. Their trip was arranged by the Institute of International Education and Grace Line (which cut rates in half) and was aided by the U. S. State Department and South American governments (which paid some of the students' expenses). The students-undergraduates, teachers, doctors, lawyers, social workers, newspapermen, an army officer-had come to study chiefly the English language...
Engaged. Marisa ("Gogo") Schiaparelli, 21, beauteous, blue-eyed daughter of Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli; and Robert Berenson, 27, Grace Line travel executive, second cousin of famed expatriate Art Critic Bernard Berenson; in Manhattan...
...town is, or will be, in love with her." Struggling to describe her power over them, otherwise manly reviewers have often found themselves dithering about her large wistful eyes, her tiptilted, crinkling nose, her mischievous smile; or else about the huskiness of her voice, her exquisite back, or the grace of her slim, long-legged, clotheshorse figure...
...cablegram from Austin R. Edwards, President of the Ski Club Chile in Santiago and leading organizer of the sport in that country, states-that the Chileans, who sailed from Valparaiso on January 10 on board the Grace Liner "Santa Elena", are scheduled to arrive in Now York today. The group will probably include five competitors and one manager yet to be selected from among the ranking skiers of the country...