Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those lines appeared on penny banks distributed among Chicago Episcopalians during the year past. Devised by Bishop George Craig Stewart, the "Bishop's Pence" campaign was supposed to induce people to say grace at meals, give 1? to the Church as a thank offering after each one. It was calculated that, if each of Chicago's 37,069 Episcopalians did so, the offering would revolutionize diocesan finances, yield more than $400,000 a year...
Last Sunday ended the first year of Bishop's Pence. Out of the banks, it was estimated, 2,700,000 pennies had jingled, as token of 2,700,000 prayers of grace in Chicago homes. Half the $27,000 had been returned to parishes, for such uses as a new roof over St. Martin's and a debt liquidated for St. Bartholomew...
...COLD JOURNEY?Grace Zaring Stone?Morrow...
...geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as James Fenimore Cooper. Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte have yet to be crowded out of their frontier freeholds, may still be said to have squatters' rights. But last week Author Grace Zaring Stone trespassed on Cooper's hunting-ground, and if she makes many more such successful expeditions, Cooper's title to the land will be considerably shaken. The Cold Journey may not prove as popular as The Last of the Mohicans (it will never be a juvenile), but that would...
...Author. Few U. S. Navy wives have found either the time or the talent to do what Author Grace Zaring Stone has done. Manhattan-born (1896), cosmopolitanly educated (she studied music in Paris, dancing at the Duncan School there), a War veteran (she worked in the British Red Cross until her health broke), she has followed her sailor husband. Commander Ellis S. Stone, to the West Indies, Europe, China, is now stationed with him in Washington, D.C. Shapely, sprightly, a crackling talker, she has produced, besides a daughter, five books by the way (others: Letters to a Djinn, The Heaven...