Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could perhaps ask for a little more articulation and more sparing use of the damper pedal in the Scarlatti, but both sonatas--seldom played items--were performed with grace and elegance, and showed to advantage the many tonal colors at the pianist's disposal...
...Yankee Stadium for an Oldtimers Day reunion of former Yankees and Detroit Tigers, Joe DiMaggio at 42 still looked good enough to make the league, cracked out a single in a brief exhibition "game" of the ancient pros, later trotted the winning run across home plate with oldtime grace...
Golden Boy is a happy little statuary fellow only 30 in. tall, and nobody knows exactly how old he is. He has a plump, round belly, is full of grace, and in a perpetual state of adoration. When anyone picked him up he would jingle faintly as if things were rattling around inside him. Since Golden Boy was made in China in a period when temple priests liked to fill their statuary with symbols, Director Richard E. Fuller and Associate Director Millard Rogers of the Seattle Art Museum grew more and more curious about what was inside. When X rays...
...steadily rising costs, reported uniformly lower earnings. International Paper Co. dipped from $21.4 million in 1956's second quarter to about $16.5 million in the same period this year; Brown Co. and Mead Corp. were down 5% and 10% respectively. Devoe & Raynolds Co., Air Reduction Corp. and Grace (W.R.) & Co. reported that first-half earnings were lower than last year's levels...
Constancy. In London, a judge termed Grace Bowler, 71, a "most ungrateful" wife to husband John, 70 (they were married in 1910), and granted him a divorce after hearing testimony that she had carried a hot meal half a mile faithfully every evening for 30 years to her boy friend...