Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently his rumored engagement to Miss Grace Vanderbilt of Manhattan was 'denied. More recently Lady Irene Curzon,- whose mother was Miss Mary Leiter of Chicago, has been mentioned. This, however, is most unlikely, as Lady Irene is six years older than he. When he does decide to marry he will become entitled to another $65,250 a year from the State...
...present year of grace, 1923, therefore passes for Omar's 800th anniversary year. Two newly illustrated editions* of FitzGerald's English version of the Rubaiyat have been put on the market...
...Great War, reached probably its greatest efficiency in American army hospitals. Pioneers on the other side, however, were Major H. D. Gilles, at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, who is now in charge at St. Andrew's, and the French surgeon Delageniere, at Val-de-Grace, Paris...
Anna Christie is the story of a Swedish farm girl who has slipped from grace. She meets her old barge captain of a father; she falls in love with an Irish sailor. Both discover the moral wounds scarring her past. Their primitive mental equipment jarred by the discovery, they all but throw her back into the streets. Their final forgiveness is generally regarded as a flabby anticlimax...
...translation by Grace Lovat Fraser is spiritedly done. To preserve in a measure the flavor of the original, the translator has rendered into an English provincial dialect the parts of three or four of the characters written by Goldoni in the Venetian speech...