Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Miss Lewys: "The President and I are reading your Verdun and Ballads at Brule. He highly prizes this marvelous work. "Grace Coolidge...
...especially when they are poor and come in droves on organized tours. When they are rich they think all Italy is theirs without discussion. They put on airs. They think we are 'natives' who must flatter them and serve them, even though they pay with a bad grace. What Fascist cares a damn for tourists...
Cited by Laborite Ponsonby as an instance of "unofficial propaganda" is the deed of Miss Kate Hume of Dumfries, Scotland. In 1914 she forged and gave to the British press a purported letter from her sister, Miss Grace Hume, in which the latter was supposed to write that her right breast had been hacked off by Germans in Belgium. Since Miss Grace Hume had never been out of England and was sensitive about her breast, she denounced her sister, but not until the story had grown to national prominence...
...triumph is tight of mouth, and even as the curtain is erasing his story he is flinging florins to the grovelling gold-thirsty who had waited for the death of Volpone. Mosca need not be named in Boston as Alfred Lunt's part; Mr. Larimore has all the grace, and enough of the busy play of expression that belonged to the actor-guardsman. In Hamlet black, with a tight head of red curls that are in a mad way exact for the role, Mosca moves swiftly, and used the stage from footlights to lagoon balcony and from...
...Great Western period Mr. Chrysler lived in Oelwein, Iowa. His mechanical curiosity was aroused by the two or three horseless thing-a-ma-jigs that sometimes moved through the streets, especially on Sundays, chugging and snorting and kicking up dust with a maximum of noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought...