Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...children - real children, after the Dress Reform's own heart - do not "load their frames with useless and cumbersome garments, destructive alike to health and grace...
...pleasure of attending the farewell dinner of the Advocate to its Editors of '75. The affair was a success in every sense; the toasts being responded to with a grace rather unusual on such an occasion. The company evidently enjoyed itself, and the fresh sheets of the Advocate passed round during the latter part of the evening added a zest to the good fare with which we were entertained...
Once angels of heaven, now fallen from grace...
...step has the grace...
...Bowdoin Orient is improving. In speaking of the last summers sensation at the White Mountains, the student waiter, it says: "He learns to hand a chair with quiet dignity, and to present a plate of soup with courtly grace; and at night, when the dishes have been washed, and the napkins all folded, he clothes himself in a broadcloth coat and joins the ladies in a social dance. His bearing throughout is one of modest independence and dignified humility. The ladies beam upon him, - it is a life of romance; the guests fee him, - it is a life of profit...