Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When rich and famed, Tibbett got a divorce." The fact is that Grace Tibbett sued for and received the divorce...
...Grace Mackay Smith . . . worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study." The fact is that Tibbett's venture East was made possible by the generosity of a Los Angeles businessman who loaned him a sizable sum of money for the purpose...
...unfair inference of the footnote is that Grace Tibbett, as a poor girl, worked to make her husband "rich and famed" and that "rich and famed," Tibbett ungratefully cast her off with perhaps not so much as a "thank you." To present a more complete picture, the footnote should have added that Mr. Tibbett has made generous financial provision for his former wife, and that in the journey from poverty to riches, he also brought Grace Tibbett from poverty and obscurity to comparative affluence and prominence...
Replied the Chancellor to the President: "We cherish as a special grace of fate that in you as the supreme patron of our will and actions we have a witness who can and inevitably must convince the whole world of the sincerity of our intentions...
...Grace Morrison Poole, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the President confidently wrote: "We enter upon the new year with a realization that we have crossed the threshold of a new era. We have the opportunity of improving conditions and making our country a better home, materially and spiritually, for more than 120,000,000 people...