Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful plumber who conducts his trade with an eye for symmetry rather than the clock. Such is not the case. When Brandt designs a clotheshorse the thing is as lovely as a statue; his screens arc metal tapestries, executed with the clarity of silhouettes, touched with a unique grace, severe, luxurious and odd. Forty-five, a native of Alsace-Lorraine and a resident of Paris, Edgar Brandt has none of the look of a Latin Quarter esthete; one would perhaps pick him out by appearance as a manufacturer rather than an artist. He talks like an artist, thinks like...
...Grace. To John William Davis went the convention's honors for gracefulness. As his party's last, unsuccessful nominee, he had to mount the rostrum to resign his titular leadership of the Democracy. He did so with a smooth blend of wit, modesty and loyalty to the new Nominee...
...drubbed John A. Roberts of Yale in the finals. Put out in an early round, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech., famed friend of Bobby Jones, said: "I've got to quit this game. I'm going to get a job." Three curly-headed players from Princeton and one Charles Grace (son of the President of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.) won the team championship...
Steel makers, led by Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem, have seen in this recovery a potential threat to U. S. industry. By consolidation, they may hope to eliminate costs of maintaining separate foreign offices, prevent competitive price-cutting for European business...
...swimmer was ever more photographed than Mrs. Lotty Moore Schoemmel, fat water-woman. Last week her sister, Mrs. Grace Moore Shaw, told...