Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, Acting Director Robert Bean fired Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley for letting a total of 19 snakes escape at various times from their cages. Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch...
...rest up before the Congress opened this week. It was his and Cleveland's show and he had worked hard at it. Well aware was he that the Pope had said: "Tell the zealous Bishop Schrembs that we send our Apostolic Benediction and wish him more than abundant grace in worthily preparing such a great event that will be productive of such great good for America." The Pope also sent a fine gold chalice which was to figure prominently in the Congress along with one once owned by St. Francis de Sales, which is the great pride of the Cleveland...
...year after his marriage to Miss Grace Gerrard, who died in 1928, he was admitted to the Nebraska bar and practiced for a number of years. At this period he was also teaching as an assistant professor of Law at the University of Nebraska and from 1903-07 he served as Dean...
...today the highly successful boss of Philadelphia's Democratic machine. He was picked by J. David Stern, publisher of the Philadelphia Record, and other ardent New Dealers for the job of putting Democrats on the Philadelphia map. Athlete Kelly promptly kicked out the machine Democrats who, by grace of Boss Vare, had for years played piccolo in Philadelphia's political orchestra. Today City Boss Kelly can and has told State Boss Guffey what he would and would not permit. This week he is running for Mayor on the platform of a 5˘ fare (in place of 7˝˘ tokens...
France had not recovered from the shock of revolution when the Prince de Condé first met his appalling mistress. The last of his family, weak, lazy, amiable, vicious, the Prince "had gained nothing from his very distinguished birth but the melancholy grace that marked his tall person, and long, slightly sheeplike face." In addition to the loss of his estates and honors, the revolution had cost the Prince his son, and most of his ambition. In 1814 his enormous wealth was restored to him and Sophie, whose influence was then uncertain, followed him to Paris, endured rebuffs and humiliations...