Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese, while more than interested, have not so far made their exclusion from the United States a matter of national honor. They recognize that every state must be allowed to regulate its own internal affairs, and although slightly disappointed, have accepted the situation up to date with a fair grace. What hurts their pride in the present case is the fact that they have been treated as a nation of relatively slight importance. Their dignity has been bruised; and they feel that Japanese prestige, which has been carefully built up during the past three generations, has suffered a damaging blow...
Lily, sister of love, rosy, full-limbed but of infinitely more grace than the women of Rubens, had returned to the town in Ohio to bury her mother. The mother had died as bitter protest against the smoke and soot which factories shot upon her gardened mansion. Out of the factories had come human wretchedness. Into the wretchedness had gone Irene, sister of virtue, to find in Christian charity what Pagan love had denied her. To her goodness a giant had been drawn, a socialist Galahad. But when he had run from the bullets of the strikebreakers into the gardened...
...Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern. Its chief concern is to rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from one genuinely funny song about Sing Sing...
...MIRACLE-The outward and visible sign of Max Reinhardt's inward and spiritual grace, assaying...
...England recently arrived in Manhattan, refused to be interviewed, refused to express any opinion at all of America, refused to give his address in Manhattan. This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds time and takes pleasure in the company of young...