Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autobiography (The Locomotive God), he revealed that his terror of travel, which kept him locked in a "phobic prison" of five campus blocks, traced back to a roaring locomotive that scared the be-junior out of him when he was two. In 1935 his third wife (Coed Grace Golden) led him out of sight of his home-to walk a fearful eight blocks to Madison's Capitol Square. When she divorced him two years later, he locked himself up again, seldom ventured out after remarrying his second wife...
...nice fantasy idea, handled with a nice sense for prankish complications, A Highland Fling just isn't written with enough gusto or grace. Its romantic moods never quite blend Scotland with fairyland; the thistle is there, but not the thistledown. And its fun is too often tame and even cute - a sort of A. A. Milne version of Tam O'Shanter...
...Dunn captured control of the state's 25 delegates, and Boss Dunn even hand-picked six of the seven delegates-at-large. The seventh place, which he left open, fell to U.S. Senator Joe Ball, a loyal Stassenite -who ran behind the Dunnsters. And as the coup de grace, R. C. Radabaugh, Stassen's No. 1 political handy man and state G.O.P. chairman, could get elected to the convention only as an alternate...
...sacrilegious ... an utter mockery of the sacredness of worship. . . . Weapons of war might as well be placed on the altar or pulpit as to allow this horrible creation ... to desecrate the sanctuary of worship." The influential Christian Century found it "rather shocking to see that symbol of gentleness and grace" holding a warship, but was thankful that "the figure of Christ does not hold the pivotal position. . . . If He were represented . . . the incongruity would be too painful...
...peasant who spent his early life as a schoolteacher (at a salary of 80? a month) and church organist, he never got the hayseeds out of his close-cropped hair. His courtesy was a little like that of an uneasy headwaiter. He referred to people he met as "Your Grace," addressed Brahms as "Mr. President." He was always imagining himself in love with some chambermaid or adolescent girl. But in his old age he confided to his housekeeper: "Only once in my life when I was young, did I ever kiss a girl. I have repented it deeply...