Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This speech what is needed at this time: it resources the Allies of our firmness of purpose at a moment when such assurance comes as a bright lining to the cloud of Russian confusion; it also acts as a "coup de grace" to the pacifistic element of the country. What we must beware of now is doing more talking than acting. We have to spend this year about three-quarters as much money as the entire amount expended in the last one hundred and twenty years. This means saving on the useless things, it means buying only those articles which...
That is a large question for even the wisest men. And the wisest men are never alive in any given age. Although they, the wisest men of ancient and more philosophical years, might have found some answer to the question in this year of grace...
Episcopal City Mission, Grace Church, South Boston: L. B. Sanderson...
...chance seemed small only a few weeks ago of any respectable part of the class--in a numerical sense--being here for the final day. But thanks to the grace of the military authorities, who are seldom praised and often damned, 1917 will meet in battle strength the last...
...straws at which drowning men clutch in oblivion to their other and lesser possessions. They are the straws that show which way the wind blows. They are the straws which people refuse to give when in a careless mood. The straw hat is the honor of adolescence, the grace of youth, the distinction of manhood, and the folly...