Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grace Coolidge, Edith Wilson, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Mary Lord Harrison and Frances Cleveland Preston-stepped down to an honorary vice-presidency...
...understood the Allies. Hitler was "narrow and ignorant." Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Reich's deposed Foreign Minister, was "a scoundrel." Rudolf Hess, a prisoner since he flew to Britain in 1941, was an unpredictable eccentric. After the attempt to kill Hitler last July, even Heinrich Himmler fell from grace. At the last, the man closest to the Führer was Martin Bormann...
...home the long way - via hospitals. Each week the program is broadcast from a different U.S. military hospital (and is paid for by a different sponsor, who earnestly tries to play down his plugs). Variety entertainment is provided by such glittering stars as Bing Crosby, Ann Sheridan, Bob Hope, Grace Moore. But the high spot is a strictly...
Colette, 72, and heavily mascaraed, accepted the honor as an inevitable tribute to France's foremost woman writer. She breezed to the Goncourt election luncheon in a big black car. She hobbled with arthritic grace across the sidewalk through a lane of admirers and fellow Academicians. To flashbulbing cameramen she cried: "Mes enfants, you are ridiculous! You are machine-gunning me!" Archly she posed her frizzled, felt-hatted, grey head and pointed her sandaled, red-toenailed feet. What had she done during the occupation? "Mes enfants, I did the same thing as the last 15 years: nothing. I didn...
...This does not, perhaps, give a very clear idea of the story, but that is no great loss. One of the odd things about this odd picture is that there really is an Arizona town called Salome-Where She Danced. It was named; however, after a native, a Mrs. Grace Salome Pratt; and it is called, for short, Suhloam. The oddest thing of all, though, is that the show is quite a lot of fun. Most of the color and costuming is garishly pretty; the dialogue is richly flavored with such tongue-in-cheek lines...