Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial power and talent ever gathered in one room...
When most members of Congress were busy composing speeches for the benefit of constituents back home. Christy's thoughts wandered to the race tracks of Laurel, Bowie or Havre de Grace. Friends who thought his heart was in the right place never accused him of having his heart in his work. So when Louis Capozzoli decided to run for Congress from the Thirteenth District, Christy had no trouble making up his mind to retire. Louis Capozzoli was popular and might have been hard to beat. By retiring, Christy could continue as leader of Tammany Hall and go on dreaming...
Aboard the Southern Cross, yacht of Swedish Tycoon Axel L. Wenner-Gren, the Governor of the Bahamas and his lady this week set sail from Nassau to Miami. Reason: Her Grace needed an operation to relieve an apical infection of a non-vital molar...
...Just to remind the public that railroads were still railroads, Maine's potato-carrying Bangor & Aroostook fell from grace last week, passed its dividend for the first time since...
Harry Brown, in the past occasionally a member of the Class of 1941 and now a sort of out-of-course poet laureate, has contributed often to the Advocate since leaving Harvard; and his poems have sometimes been the only saving grace of otherwise subnormal issues. But this month's Advocate is so consistently excellent that it would rate a whole row of stars even without Harry's magnificent "Ode For Richard Eberhart...