Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would not Mr. G.O.P. Elephant be the outstanding personality for 1946, and a fitting portrait to grace your cover...
...student comes to college with little or no knowledge of the Bible or of theology. He is, oftentimes in his first few weeks, required to grapple with the major issues of human existence-he may be plunged into the world of St. Augustine, Grace & Freedom, or into the Reformation, or the ancient tragedies, or medieval economic life-and all this with no more than a kindergarten child's knowledge of the great words and concepts of religion. It is no wonder that history remains a riddle to the ordinary student, and philosophy a dull and mysterious irrelevance...
Most of them were men in their fifties -the 14 women averaged 20 years younger. When the last two chairs were filled, sandy-mustached FTC Commissioner Lowell Blake Mason rose and said "Good morning"; FTC Attorney John Wilson said a simple grace, and breakfast got under way in contemplative silence. For the benefit of the conversationally inclined, slips of paper were placed at intervals along the table, bearing the typewritten admonition...
...wings a piano played softly Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. A squatty ballerina in pink & white tarlatan waddled across the broad, bare stage with the grace of an angry duck, poised herself on her toes in the manner of Alicia Markova and executed a series of shaky pirouettes. To no music at. all she leaped through the air and beat her chest in an athletic agony that was unmistakably Martha Graham...
...Gillian had long been working up to just such tests. At 17, when her widow-mother could not afford tuition at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Gillian won a scholarship, later got a prize for "grace and charm of speech and movement." At 19, after a swing through the provinces as a speechless Shakespearean lady-in-waiting, she toured the Near East with an E.N.S.A. (Britain's U.S.O.) girl show. Last spring, she got her big break in television...