Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such then is the last book which Mr. Cabell has presented to a world still heedless of his talents. Though it will never grace the weekly list of best sellers, its writer possesses a wit and feltcity of style unique among contemporary Americans...
...Slalom" must be a rare treat for the devotees of snow and ice, for besides being entirely in a sympathetic vein, it shows how the feats of splendid grace are performed by experts. For the rest of humanity this unique film is vicarious participation in the breathless and apparently effortless antics of winter athletes, without involving any of the chills and spills, but at the same time giving a most generous sample in comparison with the measly glimpses of the news reels...
Racing in the Massachusetts Third Class Championships held yesterday afternoon on the Mount Grace Trail, Dunbar Carpenter '37 came in tenth in a field of 53. The other Crimson skiers in the race were Thomas Motley '38, coming in twenty-fourth, and Peter T. Brooks '38 who finished in thirty-second place...
...other greased board exponents intend to go to Mt. Grace, Warwick, for the Massachusetts Third Class Championship...
...direst need; In the black-battled years when hope was gone, His courage was a flag men rallied on; His steadfast spirit shewed him King indeed. And when the war was ended, when the thought Of revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful for the meanest in his State; The best...