Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill sponsored by Chief Justice Taft has already ben introduced into Congress to relieve this condition. The object of the bill is to make all appeals, except those in certain kinds of cases, " as of grace and not of right." In other words, the Court will have the right to go over the cases presented and select for consideration only those which it considers important. By this means the Court will be able to secure the leisure necessary for the proper consideration of its important decisions...
...catastrophies of the world war. The reason it did not suffer was that even the best armies in Europe did not dare to put foot on Switzerland, a terrible temptation, because it must be admitted that the army that could have gone through would have given the "coup de grace" to the other. They did not dare because they knew they would be whipped and why?--Because in its youth Switzerland had been prepared for the only kind of citizenship on which any country ought to rely. Switzerland with no military burdens, with no standing army, so called...
Class B.--Won by Pinkerton Academy (Huntoon, Eddy, Bartlett, and Rice); second, Noble and Greenough (Fessenden, Simmonds, Spalding, and Hunneman); third, St. John's Preparatory School (Hurley, Chisholm, Grace, and Bray). Time, 3 minutes 27 seconds...
Read "Being Respectable", by Grace Flandrau. You'll never regret it. This is the third time we've mentioned this book. The fact should at least pique your imagination...
...Harding: " She represents the highest type of cultured American womanhood, and no predecessor in her high place has ever presided over the White House with more grace and genuine kindliness...