Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand, George Widener's Eight Thirty, Jock Whitney's Royal Minstrel, Marshall Field's Stimulus, Sir Galahad Third ("You wouldn't turn around to look at Galahad, but I must confess he had nice manners"), stablefuls more. His next job: an equestrian statue for the grave of Field Marshal Sir John Dill in Arlington Cemetery...
...featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest (see cut) was a 10⅛-inch painting of the buccaneering 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their flesh tones had faded, but they still shone with immaculate drawing, clean, jewel-like color, and a fine use of lace and ornament to produce a sharp, flat pattern...
...Grave Fears. Now, with two Episcopal clergymen marrying divorcees (one of them with two living husbands), it looked to the opponents of the canon as if chaos had come indeed. The Right Rev. William T. Manning, retired Bishop of New York but still as vigilant as ever, sparked the Living Church editorial with a letter published in the same issue. He did not directly mention the two consenting bishops involved-William Robert Moody of Lexington (Ky.) and Frank W. Creighton of Michigan-but he left no doubt about what he thought of them. Wrote...
...action in these two dioceses is a dishonor to the Episcopal Church and it arouses grave fears as to the effects of our recently adopted canon on marriage. Does this mean that through the wrong interpretation of the canon by some diocesan chancellors and the weakness of some bishops we are now to have a number of ecclesiastical and moral Renos, and the consequent abolition of any Christian standard of marriage, in the church...
...Watery Grave. The French Line resumed luxury service on the North Atlantic with the 18,435-ton liner De Grasse, which entered New York harbor on her first postwar trip. Her two funnels replaced by a single squat funnel, the veteran De Grasse looked none the worse for her attempted scuttling by the Germans in St. Nazaire harbor...