Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coup de grace was administered to the New Jersey, which still remained afloat. Three 2,000-lb. bombs from 3,000-ft. altitude effectively disposed of her. One of them made a direct hit. Within six minutes she sank by the stern and the demonstration was finished...
...broken adventurer, found little scope in the Merry England of Charles II for his sword. Hounded by poverty and evil fortune, he stooped at last to lend himself to a discreditable plot of the Duke of Buckingham's-the abduction of the beautiful actress, Sylvia Farquharson, for his Grace's amorous purposes. But the vile act once accomplished, and the well known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic-spitted Buckingham in the liver-wing-suffered a terrible beating from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from...
...first college graduate to be first lady of the land, but the first college sorority woman to possess that honor is Grace Anna Goodlove Coolidge. Before her. Mrs. Hayes, a graduate of Wesleyan Female College at Cincinnati, and Mrs. Cleveland, a graduate of Wells College at Auburn, N. Y., were college women. But Mrs. Coolidge is a graduate of the University of Vermont, 1902, and a Pi Beta Phi. In fact she is a charter member of her chapter which was organized in her home. (The President is a Phi Gamma Delta of Amherst...
...went through their parts admirably . . . On entering the Church, both fall on their knees and touch the floor with their foreheads, and afterwards move about to different quarters of the Church to bow before the images and kiss the holy relics?a maneuvre which they both executed with great grace. The ceremony of the Coronation itself is very pretty, the Emperor first putting the crown (which is enormous, and I should think priceless from the mass of jewels it contains) on his own head, and then lifting it off and touching with it the head of the Empress, when...
...children of the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer, in an Italian landscape, the little girl costumed as a gypsy and reading the palm of the little boy, five years old, dressed in a red satin Van Dyck suit. The picture is full of childish grace and animation...