Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a clairvoyant gift that enables him to reap riches in business. Mr. Behrman seemed to flounder, to be a little uncertain of his way. This was particularly evident in the second act. The details are revealing, little turns of character are brought out with subtlety and grace, but it is in the larger strokes, the rhythms and counter-rhythms, the transitions from one scene to another, that one feels an ineptitude that, but for Philip Moclier's unobtrusive direction, and the high standard of the acting, would make the play much less effective than...
...kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn for the Coolidges if they failed to watch him), delighted in shooting the chutes (back stairs) in a laundry basket, died of nervous exhaustion after a hilarious Fourth of July.* Thus wrote Mrs. Grace Coolidge in the December American magazine. She told of a handsome Maltese-Angora cat which was anathematized by Calvin Coolidge who, disliking fancy breeds, said: "Anyone can see that his name is Mud." But when Mud's ear became abscessed. Mr. Coolidge dressed and lanced it tenderly...
Upon the Stanford campus women swarm. No co-eds these, but members of that most efficient administrative machine which enables President of Stanford and Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur to stand with such grace with a foot on either side of the continent. The Stan- ford Employment Office and Dining Hall System are chiefed and staffed by women, the Registrar's Office and Library have two men each directing a staff composed almost entirely of women, and in every nook and cranny of Stanford, women secretaries write, type, talk, phone...
...possesses the three requirements of a musical comedy star to a well balanced degree. She is attractive to look at, her voice is pleasant enough in tone, if lacking in volume, and her dancing is well above the average. She dances easily and lightly with an unusual charm and grace of movement. One feature, "The Ballet of Dreams" stands out above the rest, an exhibition of toe dancing exemplifying the charm and grace of movements peculiar to this dance other than exaggerated pirouettes...
...Vatican City last week one prelate firmly said: "Etiquette decrees that a Catholic sovereign must kneel to the Pope and kiss his toe." But among Fascisti belief was current that His Holiness will decree a special exemption in favor of Vittorio Emanuele, "King by the Grace of God and the Will of the People...