Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Minnie Guggenheimer found a silver-lined way through the clouds. She arranged two post-season "benefit" concerts, and persuaded her 80 musicians to play for nothing. Then she signed Grace Moore to sing, and New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, ever willing to put on a show, to conduct The Stars and Stripes Forever.* To her fans, she confided: "The Mayor's going to decorate Miss Moore. I really don't know with what. ..." When uproarious applause interrupted her, she scolded: "I think you're all just dreadful people...
Most businessmen had long thought that the military strategy of beating Germany first was also an aid to reconversion: war orders for the Japanese war would cushion the shock of going back to peacetime. But in recent weeks they have found that the period of grace after V-E day was a hindrance rather than a help to transition. Last week the monthly letter of the National City Bank of New York said...
...caretaker Government's last acts, the Ministry of Health gave local authorities full power to requisition unused residences. Owners received 14 days' grace to occupy vacant premises. Alternative: the Government would take over...
...Grace Moore, returning from a U.S.O. tour of Europe (see THEATER), had an idea about faithless G.I. wives. Said the fizzy blond cinemactress and Metropolitan Opera soprano: "They ought to shave the heads of these women...
With the war's end (seven of his students are in the Navy), and the South's gradual economic liberation from the North, Hudson Strode predicts a great regional renascence. For, he declares, "there is more passion, more sentiment, more grace, and more variety in the South than in any other section of the nation...