Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English will indeed take almost anything from Winston Churchill with relatively good grace. As a young man, just returned on leave from overseas service, he once exuberantly climbed a pillar in one of London's most fashionable music halls and demanded cheers for the ladies of pleasure to be found in the lobby. Theirs were, he said, the only breasts on which a roving English soldier's head was always sure of comfort and repose...
...smoking a cigaret when he landed at the Tempelhoffer field, Berlin, but at once obeyed with good grace the peremptory and officious command of an ordinary policeman: "Put out the cigaret! You can't smoke on this aviation field...
...President of this Republic, which fact in itself is innocent enough. However, it provided a spicy stimulant for the tongues of Manhattan scandal mongers last May. They hatched a quotation, in which she was alleged to have said: "I never liked that man from the day Grace married him, and the fact he's become President of the U. S. makes no difference...
While in Manhattan, J. Krishnamurti stayed at the Waldorf. After addressing a number of Theosophical gatherings he left, with his lecture manager, for Chicago, to grace a convention of the American Theosophical Society...
...Chicago last week, directors of the Midland Utilities Co. elected Samuel Insull Jr. their president over public utility companies which serve electricity, gas or transportation to 194 communities of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. He accepted the appointment with the grace of his mother, onetime Actress Margaret A. Bird, and with the complacent assurance of his father, Electricity Monger Samuel Insull...