Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With its customary lack of grace, the United States Immigration Commission last week precipitated a seven-day international wonder show--the deportation and subsequent re-admission to the U.S. of William Heikkila, a Finish alien...
...ground, and a large migration of his mother's Shropshire family traversed western Europe to Bavaria many centuries ago. "One of my family claims we are related to the Rainiers--the Monaco Rainiers--but I think the relationship is a dubious one, very dubious... Yet it is fun when Grace bears yet another child to remark that the family is getting larger all the time...
...Eyre's grandfather developed the South America trade for W.R. Grace and Company, and built up the Grace Line, which is to South America what the United Fruit Company is to Central America. "Me? I haven't the slightest inclination to go into the business. But if it came right down to it, of course I would if I could...
...Brien Nicholas '59, performed an aria in Bach's Cantata No. 41 with a freshness and grace which excelled even her own past performances. The other soloists, Thomas Beveridge '59, Ruth Oeste '58, and Karl Dan Sorensen, also possess very fine voices. The only villains of the evening were the trumpets, particularly the second, who came near to turning the Bach into a shambles...
...could not, however, be sustained throughout such a long work. Mr. Poto, in striving for rhythmic vitality, sacrificed the song-like quality which is the trademark of Schubert, and the grace which a more leisurely slow movement would have had. The brass section was not kept under control, with the result that in the coda of the first movement, for example, the returning theme was lost entirely...