Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakdown in antitrust enforcement. They are still watching and waiting. Relying heavily on the consent decree to accomplish the Government's purpose while avoiding long, costly court battles, Brownell's Justice Department has taken on such business giants as General Motors, International Business Machines, Pan American-Grace Airways and the Radio Corp. of America. General Lucius Clay, chairman of the Continental Can Co. and one of President Eisenhower's closest friends and advisers. is indignant at two antitrust suits filed against his company...
Song Without Words. In Waukesha, Wis.. The Raconteurs, a men's writing club, staged an essay contest on "Why Men Are Better Writers Than Women," scheduled a sumptuous dinner for the winner: Mrs. Grace Woodard...
...some Eartha Kitt touches as mehitabel-is the Don Marquis strain triumphant. A few other times-as in a revue-sketch scene where mehitabel, as a dramatic-school tyro, suddenly gives the hot-jazz treatment to Shakespeare-Shinbone Alley is attractive show business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives Kitt for cat. But the show's plotless proceedings have little episodic lift, the score is unexciting and the dancing dated, and Eddie Bracken's archy seems understandably forlorn...
...work on Mickey in 1949, now has high hopes that Cohen will repent in earnest. Said Cohen: "I am very high on the Christian way of life. Billy came up, and before we had food he said-What do you call it. that thing they say before food? Grace? Yeah, grace. Then we talked a lot about Christianity and stuff...
...catalogue displayed more than 120 different varieties of roses in all floral colors except blue, breathlessly described them in the rosiest of prose. Among the new roses to dream over were Aida ("displays the same majestic grandeur and dark beauty as its namesake"), Golden Fleece ("performs with all the grace and beauty of a flirting ballerina") and Spartan ("no race of men ever existed as strong and vigorous as the Spartans...