Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going was very rough. The blind man lifted his feet high and put them down wherever they fell. He had none of the cautious grace of men long blind, but struck out with his legs as if angry at the path. A mule skinner came up the path riding a mule and singing a song about Georgia. One of the litter bearers said: "Here you, what you doing on that mule? Get off and let one of these fellows ride who need it." So the skinner got off and we lifted the blind soldier on to the mule...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple, likes to drive home his points in workaday metaphors. Last week he conjured up an ironmongery (British for hardware store) in which a night-prowling prankster switched round the price tags. Then, said His Grace, "When we enter in the morning, we find lawn mowers are two for 5?, nails $25 each, and a gallon of paint a penny. All the values are wrong. That is what has happened to our civilization, and we shall not come to order and peace until our price tags tally with...
...Grace Thorpe, daughter of Jim Thorpe, once-famed Indian halfback, graduated from training school at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., was assigned to WACtive duty as a recruiting aide...
...violence in the Spanish Civil War. Gary Cooper is Robert Jordan, Hemingway's young Montana schoolteacher who has come to Spain to fight for democracy everywhere. Gary Cooper, over the years, has so cornered the beloved American romantic virtues of taciturnity, melancholy, tenderness, valor and masculine gauche grace that he has become, for millions, a sort of Abraham Lincoln of American sex. He plays modestly, sometimes beautifully...
...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, recently gave up half his ?9,000 ($36,000) salary. Tories who dislike His Grace for his leftish economic and social ideas were quick to point a scornful finger at this renunciation. Said Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons: "He has entered into a perfectly splendid arrangement . . . [he] will pay less taxation in the future...