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Word: gracefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and I send to you and yours our love and best wishes."-Grace Goodhue Coolidge to Lou Henry Hoover, via telegraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President and I . . . | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Houston had beauty, Houston had distinction. It would not lack the authority of age and experience. From New York came Elizabeth Marbury, 72 years old by grace of exactly a week, vigorous social worker and business woman. Delegate Marbury could claim precedence, if she liked, over California's Gertrude Franklin Atherton, who will not be 71 until next Hallowe'en. Delegates wondered at the youthful appearance of Mrs. Atherton, ascribed it variously to the California climate, to her busy literary life, to her intense interest in the problems of rejuvenation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brown Turbans | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Enthused, confident, Her Grace ordered an immediate start for India. The plane rose heavily, snapped four telegraph wires, winged its way to Sofia, Aleppo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flyings | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...into the water, upsetting a sailboat. Yachts kept running into each other headon. In one race a blue sloop in front of all the rest had a collision with a swan and was forced off the course while hundreds of people watched the others, ship models, big in their grace, sweep on, racing in a regatta held by the Bureau of Recreation on a lake in Central Park, Manhattan. A deaf mute, one Raphael Freedman, won first prize with a boat made of aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sails | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...developed pains in the skull. Her jaws crumbled; her features were curiously altered; then her mind sickened. For some time she was confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark bank ever since leaving the radium company seven years ago; still runs her department although her left elbow cannot move and she wears a brace from neck to hips. Twenty operations have been performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison Paintbrush | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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