Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young tinkers and hawkers" who had no opportunity to know anything about politics. This drew from Rhys Davies, Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs, the cutting rejoinder that tinkers were as well fitted to vote as hotel butterflies. "I have no acquaintance with hotel butterflies," parried Her Grace, smiling, "but I know some tinkers. At any rate, hotel butterflies can read and write...
...Meanwhile, the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, presented to His Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, a formal invitation to head the speakers' list at the meeting in Buffalo, Nov. 11-13, and thereafter to address great American audiences. The Archbishop is world president of the Alliance...
...SWAN-The regal grace of its namesake exemplified in a flawless production of family life where Royal blood runs blue...
...however vain, which might restore some fragment of joy and courtesy to Vanity Fair, the only permanent institution on earth. In "A Handful of Pleasant Delights", we see the art practised with simplicity and fervor of soul, too honest and optimistically tussling with versification for the polished and invidious grace of the sonneteers Or at least it is so in the following superb example, which merits instant acceptance as the literal truth. Other verses in the book are more fluent and studied...
...York Life Insurance Company is sending out today between 250 and 400 bills to the men who have subscribed to the Senior Class Fund. These bills are for the initial premium payment on their policies, and there is a month of grace before they must be paid...