Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meanwhile, "Jim," famed gobbler from the President's Plymouth (Vt.) farm, escaped the ax for the second time. Last year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after...
...John Knowles Paine Concent Hall of the Music Building at 8.15 o'clock, and admission will be free. Mr. W. J. Abbott, the Editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Mr. L. L. Cleveland, the Headmaster of the Cambridge Latin School, and the Reverend Roscoe Hatch of the Grace Episcopal Church in Everett will act as judges. Each judge will have one vote and a fourth vote will be based on a ballot taken in the audience. Dr. John Dickinson will probably preside...
...Mary I ("Bloody Mary," 1516-1558) and her husband King Philip II of Spain bore jointly perhaps the most diversified title ever attached to English sovereigns: "Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of England and France, Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant...
...Schwab, for all his hard sense, is emotional. The clash of their natures showed itself at the very formation of the U. S. Steel Corp. in 1901. The late John Pierpont Morgan attracted Judge Gary, the legalist, to organize his iron and steel consolidation plans, and to give them grace. The late Andrew Carnegie was the biggest steel maker in the U. S., and Mr. Schwab was to all purposes Andrew Carnegie, being president of the Carnegie Steel Co. and Carnegie's prime partner. They could wreck the Morgan schemes. But they wanted to sell out-for nearly...
...manner of using it to the plane of art may use tools that are more finely tempered, but they are of the same shape as those employed by the most commonplace writer. Words must give the thought its visible form. So the man who aspires to write with grace and distinction tries to create an artificial separation. It should last long enough to give him the feeling that he is working in a medium as different from the speech of the man in the street as a dry-point is different from a circus billboard...