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Word: gracefulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...with a knife; still another married him, or at least they lived together as man & wife. Cora Taylor was devoted to him, but only a romp with his tiny nieces ever brought a smile to the face of Stephen Crane. His life had a kind of luckless ill grace as if he had been selected fate's prize guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in Search of a Hero | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Died. John Douglas MacGregor, 74, who as vice president and general manager of Pan American-Grace Airways established (1929) the first air route connecting North and South America; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...concert" caliber; on occasion, he has taken baton in hand, conducted the New York City Ballet orchestra in ballet performances. At 46, a U.S. resident for 17 years and a citizen for twelve, he is also, beyond doubt, the finest living choreographer. No one today can equal the lyric grace of his inventions, the cool classicism of his abstract designs. Totting up all of his various qualities, the Nation's exacting B. H. Haggin goes so far as to call him "the greatest living creative artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mazurka for Manhattan | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Last week a project was announced that would add to Armagh's value as a symbol of peace in Ireland. The governments of both the North and the South were backing a planetarium at the ancient See of St. Patrick. His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Catholic Primate of Ireland, and His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Gregg, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of the Church of Ireland, have given the project their blessings. Ex-Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, now Chancellor of Ireland's National University, is on the planetarium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stars over Ireland | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...reworking most of the old jokes on cuckoldry and keeping the slapstick busy, the picture provides some mild amusement. Its single innovation proves its saving grace: the pivotal character who causes all the trouble is no disembodied voice this time but a quite fleshly rogue, played with jaunty elegance by Britain's Actor-Playwright Emlyn (Night Must Fall) Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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