Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constitutional law and jurisprudence, edited The American Law Review, practiced briefly in Boston. For 20 years he sat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court. In 1902 President Roosevelt appointed him to the U. S. Supreme Court. There he quickly grew famed for his liberal thought, for the clarity and grace of his expression, for the vigor and regularity with which he dissented from the opinions of a conservative majority. Leaving his Capitol office one day in 1932, aged 90, he said to his assistants, "I won't be in tomorrow." Thus, simply, he withdrew to the quiet...
That the mansion, Compton Place near Brighton, has even one bathroom is amazing considering the early Victorian tastes of the Duke of Devonshire who has called such modernities as motor cars "foul, stinking things, horrible brutes making life hideous!" On a recent visit to London, His Grace congratulated himself that "I was able to find a hansom...
...Since the War Peers and Peeresses going bankrupt have averaged seven per year, but efforts to keep them out of jail nearly always succeed and no Peer or Peeress was in jail last week. In February 1934 His Grace the Duke of Leinster barely escaped incarceration by paying his irate tailor...
...Grace is Mrs. Andrews. Her sister Josephine is Mrs. Doolittle...
...achieves a state of grace before each performance by meditating alone for half an hour, and has never yet made an entrance to Gabriel's strident cue "Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah" without breaking into a cold sweat. "If you got to thinking about it too much and let it get hold of you offstage as well as on," says he, "I don't think your sanity would stand it. It's a hard part to play." He has had to put up with a good deal of hysterical adoration. A friend of 50 years...