Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Simon & Schuster, old hands at publishing quiz books, have this to say: "Live Them Again is a parlor game matching the fiendish delights of crossword puzzles, Ask Me Another and Twenty Questions. Do you know, for instance, who inspired the quip, 'There but for the grace of God goes God?' Who started network on-the-field play-by-play broadcasting? Who was Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1932-described by H. L. Mencken as 'half Indian and half windmill...
...time, Bishop Wright quotes the recent words of Cardinal Feltin of Paris: "We believe in the future of humanity. We Christians are more optimistic than all others, even though we recognize the vast errors of which human nature is capable. We are not Utopians, but we know that grace is stronger than...
...famous in the U.S. and Europe in 1906-08. In The Incense, she was an Indian woman carrying a tray of smoking incense; Miss Ruth's figure was no longer as willowy as it was in Theodore Roosevelt's Administration, but her bare arms undulated with astonishing grace and control. In The Cobras, she was a fakir. As the cobras, represented by Miss Ruth's arms, slithered over her head and body, she wore an impudent expression that told her audience that neither she nor the fakir took the cobras very seriously. In The Yogi, she strode...
...protect Paramount's $3,000,000 investment, she was required to answer an endless series of silly questions. "How does it feel to be a star, Miss Hepburn?" "Do you think marriage and a career are compatible, Miss Hepburn?" Audrey sailed through the tiring ordeal with the grace of a princess born and the tact of a diplomat. She could speak gently of her own engagement (to James Hanson, a wealthy young British businessman), which had been broken off after Roman Holiday was finished. She could still charmingly squelch the brash reporter who tried to pry deeper. She could...
Seminarian Stuart McLean of Yale Divinity School, who with Ed Bland of Princeton Theological Seminary worked in a steel plant, concluded that most of the men he met were far from understanding even such key words as "sin," "grace" and "redemption"-though he heard ministers glibly using the words to them as if they...