Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
...University authorities have acted wisely in refusing the invitation of Harvard Yale likes to take defeat with good grace, but we cannot refrain from observing that such a competition proves little of importance. Harvard may claim that she admits better material than Yale: she may even argue that her English department offers more thorough preparation for such at test. Yale would not dispute the point, because it is not worth a tinker's damn. It provides a source of raillery for Harvard undergraduates to use against their Yale friends: it probably also makes certain Harvard professors quite satisfied with their...
...interests are admittedly hard put to it to adopt themselves to the needs of everyone. Mr. Perry has recognized the necessity for readjustment of the demands made by a side show just at the time when the main attraction is about to begin in the big tent. The grace with which he has withdrawn his bid for the attention of seniors at a stage when they may ill afford it should be an example to those more conservative instructors who doggedly maintain that success in the past is ample augury for success in the future...
...often beyond our understanding. . . . "I do not know why such a price was exacted for occupying the White House." ¶ In Northampton, Mr. Coolidge relaxed from the cares of the Presidency in the same humor that made him remark to Mrs. Coolidge when Inauguration Day turned out rainy: "Well, Grace, it usually rains on moving day." Receiving reporters in his old law office, bearing the sign of "Coolidge and Hemenway," he held in his hand, and ratified with a grin, a cartoon which showed him lying in a New England bed under a New England comforter, derisively grinning...
Third was Dr. Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan. Smooth-faced, brown-eyed, athletic, this churchman, too, seemed to prefer the diocese in which he found himself, and declined...