Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible for students to obtain blood free, regardless of whether or not they are donors because of the large student response to previous drives, said Miss Lee Grace, Director of the Cambridge Red Cross Blood Center. "There is an adequate pool for the community, thanks to the contributions of Harvard and Radcliffe students," she stated...
...huge, cumbersome furniture of the Renaissance. Though museums have largely taken the places of the big buyers, Renaissance pieces are out of fashion today, when even the wealthy live in smaller apartments. What sells well now are French, English and Venetian pieces of the 18th century, whose size and grace blend well with contemporary furnishings. Most popular are the Louis XV and Louis XVI chests, tables and chairs; their light-colored woods look well in small apartments. Canny British buyers are turning for good investments to the darker, out-of-favor British oak and walnut of the early 19th century...
...within the next few years under the title The Gospel According to St. Mace. And believers of the new Word, whether they attend lunch hour worship at the church on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, or a baccalaureate service at a university chapel, need have only the grace of competency...
...Grace. While he was busy buying up such surefire successes as The Last Hurrah, Wald also found time to write to 10,000 librarians all over the world, asking for the names of their most popular books. As a result of the poll, he has since bought D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (an overrated but filmable story of British miners) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (a-nearly unfilmable tale of four-letter words and high-level adultery...
Most popular theme turned up by the poll was survival. Second was security. In third place came sex. Nevertheless, Wald has dictated a 95-page outline for Grace Metalious, from which she promises to produce a sequel to Peyton Place. Maybe only Grace will think the result a masterpiece, but if Jerry Wald likes it, it will make a movie-and money...