Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most alarming thing about the incident is the apathy with which it has been received. The New York Tribune was one of the few Republican papers to comment on Haines' return to grace. It stated quite baldly that the President had to make the choice between incompetence and the loss of support of the Anti-Saloon League. He chose incompetence. Possible votes twenty months from now, then, are of more importance than present and effective administration of government. And no one seems to care a great deal perhaps because no one will cavil at ineffective dry administration...
...Count was "a tall supple figure, indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...
...Statues of what animals grace the main entrance of the public library on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue, Chicago...
Died. Mrs. Grace Woodville Read Robinson, 60, broker, member of Women's Bond Club, wife of historian James Harvey Robinson (author of The Mind in the Making, 1921) ; in Manhattan...
Divorced. By Mrs. Grace Shotwell Marson, daughter of the late Bishop Charles Sumner Burch of the N. Y. Protestant Episcopal Diocese; Captain Arnaldo Marson; in White Plains, N. Y. At the same time her son, Lyndon Walkup Burch, divorced his wife Isabelle Keyes Burch. Captain Marson, husband of Bishop Burch's daughter had eloped with Bishop Burch's granddaughter-in-law Isabelle...