Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gracious old Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Cinemactor Don Ameche, Hollywood's No. 1 impersonator of great inventors, posed for his picture in a nightclub, thus irritated a neighboring drunk, presently found himself deep in an exchange of unpleasantries. Ameche wound up and threw a punch, four pretty models screamed, the drunk was thrown out. Ameche's punch had missed, but the season was under...
Died. Frances Violet Stewart Thomas, 66, tall, gracious wife of Socialist Norman Thomas, who spent most of her time raising five children and prizewinning cocker spaniels and who once ran a tearoom; of a heart attack; in Cold Spring Harbor...
...owns a majority of the club's stock, and has no intention of firing himself. His son Earle is "captain and coach" of the A's, but Connie himself runs the team. When people try to second-guess him, he utters one of his strongest oaths: "Gracious...
...Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake. And if that is not too easy We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, what e'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb...
...virtual social recluse for several years after his first wife died, McCormick has mellowed and relaxed since December 1944, when he married his neighbor and onetime tenant, gay and gracious Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper. Last year he joined the Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent...