Word: gracing
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...crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet, a mountain or a waterfall. This is the quality that informs all his best work: his bridges poised in tensile grace over tugboats and coal barges; his factory forges; his skyscrapers lifting, tier by tier, their walls and towers and denticulated terraces into...
...among themselves since, but on administrative issues only. Tens of millions of living souls-Wesleyans, Methodists and the dozen or so sects articulated specially in different times and climes-all revere the one man, the young deacon who followed his youth's vision until his death, full of grace...
...result of the agitation leaves Yale alone to face the music. If the hand of the News has been responsible for the unveiling of sordid truths, it must shoulder the job of swinging the pendulum back to grace. What then is the result which we fear? It is that Yale must pay the bitter price of being an example. Yale, then, is an example, and has shown that the wet majority of the country will not retreat before this legislation. This being the case, a compromise is both desirable and necessary if young America is to grow up with proper...
...when he will finish his next one. Nearly every Barrie revival runs the danger of being submerged by the lovable phantom of Maude Adams. This production was originally scheduled for Laurette Taylor and Godfrey Tearle, and was to be followed by The Admirable Crichton. It was offered to Grace George, who with remarkable insight suggested that the play would be most interesting if done by one of the new generation. Helen Hayes was consequently selected for the part, and probably made the greatest impression of her relatively brief career...
...joins their company, a youthful elephant captured with 55 of his elders and betters in a drive on the Malay Peninsula. He is brought over the oceans to Madison Square Garden; shipped across the continent with a big circus to winter quarters in Hollywood, and then back again to grace the zoo of a small New England city...