Word: graces
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Neutrality Act from the waters she was built for, the America would eat up maintenance fees (perhaps $1,000 a day) just tied to a pier. There was no hope of putting her into the South American trade (U. S. exports up 59% over last year), for the Grace Line and the American Republics Line had that continent sewed up. But in the U. S. ocean shipping business, the Government taketh away, but also giveth. Fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt signed the Bailey-Bland bill, authorizing the Maritime Commission to absorb all or part of the deficits of vessels that have...
...life. As pieced together by Biographer Ross from the Lamb literary remains, from scraps of correspondence, there is little ordeal in the day-to-day doings of Bridget Elia (Lamb's literary name for his sister). What emerges is a singularly tender brother-&-sister relationship, of much charm, grace, fortitude, patience. In her long lucid intervals, Mary Lamb led a lively life: The Ordeal of Bridget Elia is a lively record...
...Uneasily, defiantly, the delegates debated with their consciences and each other; uneasily they tramped around to see Willkie again & again, catching fleeting glimpses of a shaggy man, haggard, hoarse, sweating, strange, standing on a hotel dressing-chair exhorting: "Vote for me early. It's better to come to grace early than late...
...opinion of the girls' Bostonian Principal Abby Sutherland, 64, the drill is given to "cultivate poise, grace, better posture," to inculcate "cooperation, coordination, leadership, and loss of self-consciousness ... a very democratic thing, you know." Calculated to cultivate a more essential poise is Ogontz' popular course on babies, held in "Lares," a completely furnished model home. Each fall, the girls study, coddle and raise a two-month-old foundling until Easter, when it goes back to its mother or foster parent. Last year's baby was Betty Jones, whom the girls dubbed "Betty Jogontz...
...last year's show (valued at $20,000,000) of Italian old masters. To make up for this loss, the Fine Arts Palace on Treasure Island added contemporary European, Mexican paintings; a collection, unique in the U. S., of South and Central American art assembled by Dr. Grace McCann Morley, director of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Also added was the most complete exhibit of photography ever shown in the West (including an entire room given to the photographs of California's Edward Weston); a much-improved collection of U. S. paintings, going back to Colonial times...