Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman, J. T. Baldwin, Eleanor Sutton; F. K. Kernan, Grace Sargent; S. C. Graves Jr., Mary Hall; L. Nichols; R. Field, J. S. Clark...
...Chairman, W. H. Bowker, Edith Hill; F. W. Taylor; Elsie Burgess; C. W. Turner, Antoinette Carillo; C. H. Sawyer, Grace Elwell; K. Reardon, Margaret McDonald; E. McCurdy, Dorothy Morgan; H. E. Graham, Amy Edmands; B. H. McCurdy, Gertrude Stone; P. Hurd, margaretha Hackebarth...
...many of those sophisticates who prate about the perfect strength and grace of the Periclean Greeks have ever seen the Roth Brothers in their marvelous acrobatics, or the Aristpphanic clownings of those amusing tumblers, Fortunello and Cirillino? Or Bird Millman, the circus star who does incredible things? How many intellectuals who lament the passing of the pungent Yankee wit have thought of Will Rogers of the Follies as anything but a mountebank? Or Savoy and Brennan as aught but purveyors of laughter to the Babbittry...
Unfortunately, they loved too well rather than wisely?with the usual consequences. So Guy burgled a local store for the money to send Bee away to her Aunt Grace's in Kansas City and discovered that he wasn't quite such a noble character as he had thought he was. When Bee returned with the consequences ?a red little infant named Cecil? the trouble began. And the scandal and finger-pointing was much increased by the fact that Adrian Plummer, Guy's highly Old Testament father, proclaimed his son's sin from the pulpit and confessed that...
...Significance. The Book of My Youth is a vivid and sincere picture of the arduous and unflinching struggle toward maturity of a powerful and independent personality. For the most part it may be fairly said to lack the charm and grace with which Anatole France, for instance, recounts his early years?the manner is solid rather than suave?much of the description, were it written of a fictitious character, would lack the fortuitous interest it attains from its concern with Sudermann himself...