Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actual total expenditure was $38,722.25, still a bargain, even in the early 1800s. An itemized account of the expenditures may be found in an article by Grace Lewis* in the Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society (July...
Backpats were traded on a Hollywood set by Academy Award-winning Cinemactress Grace (The Country Girl) Kelly and jut-jawed Cinemactor Glenn (The Blackboard Jungle) Ford, just visiting. Both have been nominated for top acting honors in the first annual Audience Awards poll, whipped up by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations to give U.S. moviegoers a chance to name their own favorites. Votes will be cast in the nation's theaters the latter half of next month...
Meanwhile, the Assistant Curator of Mammals and Birds of the Bronx Zoo reported that the two young male hippopotamuses there have shown no evidence of fear, frustration, or domination by females--as the Belgian zoologist contends. "Of course the environment may make a difference," Miss Grace Duvall added...
...dinner, grace is said by either Donald or Joe, in conversational man-to-man tones: "Father, we thank Thee for this day and particularly for this food. Go with us through the further part of this night. Amen." The meal is hearty. A typical menu: fried chicken, pole beans with lots of shelled ones mixed among the snaps, whippoorwills (brown peas), okra (fixed in a "made-up" dish with corn-bread crumbs and meats, so as to remove the slickness), corn, sweet potatoes, candied pears, eggbread sticks, biscuits, cake and ice cream. Most of the food is produced...
HIGGINS INC., famed World War II PT boatmaker, will pass out of family hands and into the W.R. Grace shipping empire. Andrew J. Higgins' four sons, who pulled the company out of its postwar slump by diversifying into pleasure boats and offshore oil drilling equipment, have given Grace and a New Orleans syndicate a long-term option, but are keeping mum on the price...