Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little as 25% of cost to private industry, because of sky-high wartime construction prices and reconversion costs. But the Bethlehem purchase will set no real price precedent. There will be little, if any, reconversion cost for coke ovens and blast furnaces. As Bethlehem's President Eugene G. Grace explained the purchase: "We like to be our own landlord...
...directive from Dr. Grasset, "minister [of health] by the grace of Hitler," says that Frenchmen to be sent to Germany need not be examined carefully as to general health and aptitude-a cursory once-over will do because those who are not very fit can be used as ticket punchers, etc. Le Medicin warns its doctor readers not to let Dr. Grasset lure them into passing any tubercular or mentally deficient people. Once in Germany, they would meet certain death...
...mind of Santayana is restless and far-traveled; the flow of his thought is never the steady controlled intensity that he admires in the ancients, but glints with unexpected intellectual play over the current-like foam above the rapids of a river. After the long years when the very grace of his writing gave the impression that it lacked substance, his especial gift, intuitive, sympathetic, has come into its own. The ceremoniousness and hospitality of the Latin American mind are his, as is its sudden poetic insights, its brilliant intellectual discoveries that are tossed aside, like a master artist...
...senior year he was All-Southern tackle, and still has the bodily grace of muscular self-control. He has what baseball people call "a good pair of hands" -large, capable, well-coordinated. He talks with few gestures, but his speech is superb in exactness, his voice even but never monotonous. When he dresses a man down, there is no profanity, no shouting, not even the chill look of traditional military anger. But his ire burns like hell. These personal explosions of his are rarely and consciously utilized tools: he can turn them on & off like a spigot...
Next day, grave old Senator Walter George, Finance Committee chairman, called in reporters. Henry Morgenthau's criticism, said he, came with "exceeding bad grace," especially from a man who had never offered any suggestions on renegotiation. In fact, said Senator George, warming up: Henry Morgenthau knew nothing at all about contract renegotiation, and even less about...