Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geared for women voters; nudging The Big Payoff from its daily spot, Ike and his questioners aimed at women across the nation. The questions were routine-what about the draft, the cost of living, the chance of another depression? But Ike caught the spirit of the occasion, with easy grace enjoyed a 29-minute parlor chat, gave the ladies some succinct answers for housewives to ponder; e.g., "All of the economic factors . . . point toward a continuation of good times." And though the cost of living had edged up in 3½ years, "you ladies are buying a lot of built...
With more than a wisp of misgiving, millionaire ex-Bricklayer John B. Kelly and his wife Margaret, parents of Monaco's Princess (High Society) Grace, settled uneasily into theater seats for the Philadelphia opening of a new musical, Happy Hunting. The show, attended by scads of the Kellys' neighboring Mainliners, was a benefit performance for Mrs. Kelly's charity, Philadelphia's Woman's Medical College. Soon, while others there tittered nervously, Jack and Margaret Kelly learned the worst: Happy Hunting not only satirized the wedding of Grace and Prince Rainier, but also used everybody...
Rattlesnakes do not make good pets, Klauber warns solemnly. When caressed with the hand or stroked with a brush, they sometimes arch their backs, but this apparent appreciation should not be depended upon. Klauber tells of a woman, Mrs. Grace O. Wiley, who petted her snakes and enjoyed seeing them arch their backs like cats. "Her fearless handling of venomous snakes," he says, "was well known, yet . . . even in her case, after many years of experience, there was a fatal termination...
...years of unremitting sweat, in which Wee Geordie threw a sockful of good shillings after bad exercises. And what had he got to show for all of his trouble? Well, as a matter of fact, he was just about 6 ft. 6 and hard as bricks. Whether by the grace of God or the works of Henry Samson, Wee Geordie (Bill Travers) turned out to be the biggest and the brawest laddie from Ecclefechan to Papa Westray. He was a nice, gentle giant-or, depending on the point of view, a big dumb ox. He thought of nothing...
...busy transporting the troops. The result was carnage. At Cape Helles the Turks began "firing from a few yards away into the packed mass of screaming, struggling men in the boats." The men "died in the boats just as they stood, crowded shoulder to shoulder, without even the grace of an instant of time to raise their rifles. When all were dead or wounded-the midshipmen and sailors as well as the soldiers-the boats drifted helplessly away." Air Commodore Samson came flying over at this moment, "and looking down saw that the calm blue sea was 'absolutely...