Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soler added that, according to his research, Goya probably had never been the Duchess' lover. Reason: her Grace was cold, narcissistic-not stormy Goya's type. The tale had just been dreamed up by writers, probably French...
...Grace Moore was goggleworthy herself in a photo that reached the U.S. from Rome last week (see cut). Occasion for the bubbly blonde soprano's somber wrap-up : an audience with Pope Pius XII. The onetime Baptist choir singer from Jellico, Tenn. had conversion on her mind...
...Grace Coolidge, relict of the 29th President, kept a dinner engagement at the home of a Northampton, Mass, cobbler. As she presented pins to a class of nurses' aides, she had encountered a girl with an Italian name, promptly inquired whether the girl could cook spaghetti, soon got an invitation from the girl's parents. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the Sam Borrelli home in good time, departed 4½ hours later. "She ate slowly," reported Cobbler Borrelli...
...guidance of maitre-de-ballet Frederic Franklin the corps de ballet has gained the precision of the Rockettes, while the corps de ballet girls in the Ballet Theater keep their own time and often fall flat on their derrieres in "Swan Lake" and other romantic ballets which require the grace and accuracy that the Ballet Russe alone can offer...
...Harvard Dramatic Club's spring production, "Winterset," is the best play to grace Brattle Hall's boards in several months. Written by Maxwell Anderson, it draws upon the notorious Sacco-Vanzetti scandal for plot material, and features unsavory characters with turned-up collars and shifty glances. An alleyway and an adjoining tenement are the settings, while a conveniently located river provides an easy means for disposing of embarrasing cadavers...