Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buddhist who needs Buddhist sons for heirs to his throne. Last week Marie Nguyen Hu Hao appealed to Archbishop Dreyer, Apostolic Delegate to Indo-China at Hanoi. Would His Grace ask the Pope for a special dispensation? She offered the Church the female issue of her mixed marriage. Would that be enough? She hoped, in all piety and humility, for a speedy reply, for the Emperor had fixed his wedding for March...
...high against the age-old Harvard custom of promotions on the basis of academic seniority. In the past, slow indeed has been the rise to fame of the young mind. He has had to wade patiently through a series of one and three year appointments before he may grace the ranks of even the assistant professors. He has had to publish works of supposed scholastic merit which have been deemed essential to admit him to the fellowship of learned men. Many of these treatises have received no circulation beyond the examining board and are composed merely to satisfy an academic...
...playing at Keith's Boston, through to a last-minute happy conclusion, in spite of the blond loveliness of Gene Raymond and Hollywood's ideas on the point of debutantes. Miss Dee, in the part of the social novitiate contributes comeliness and charm to her role, the saving grace in an otherwise run-of-the-mill movie. And let it not be claimed that the charm of the adorable Frances cannot perform such a miracle. The crowds that wait patiently through the show give ample testimony on this point...
...Married. Grace Green Roosevelt. 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (see p. 51), eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. Baltimore architect and sportsman; in Oyster Bay. L. I. The wedding cake was constructed by famed Mme Blanche (TIME. Jan. 8).'The 2.000-odd guests included Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and some 15 other Roosevelts...
...salary cut from $229,167 to $206,250 last March. Highest straight salary for 1932 was $250,000, paid to Charles M. Schwab as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper got $249,232 in 1932, against $345,000 in 1929. Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel got a $1,600,000 bonus in 1929 but his $12,000 salary had been upped to $180,000 for 1932. That year George Washington Hill was paid a $120,000 salary and a $705,607 bonus, against salary & bonus of $605,613 in 1929. Another notable bonus...