Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, men of the city communed over a tale last week. They thought of it, in essence, as of a temperance milk shake poured upon a table-fountain sizzling with champagne. The spirit of the milk shake is a British Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits...
...adventure which befell last week, James Albert Edward Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn, since 1922 Governor of Northern Ireland. To his personal motor car the police of Belfast had just assigned a distinctive combination of lights, so that even at night instant right of way would be accorded to His Grace...
...suddenly hailed by a plump, determined wench who had planted herself and a huge basket of eggs so strategically in the road that to circumvent either was impossible. Resolute, she wrenched open the limousine's door and clambered in, clutching her basket, slumping down cheerily beside His Grace, who is four times a baron, twice a marquis, twice a viscount, as well as being Earl and Duke of Abercorn. Wench and Duke rode on into Belfast, jointly steadying the eggs...
Greedy photographers for weeks had been circling silently, hungrily around a little house in Manhattan's tangled Greenwich Village. They had prowled darkly through abutting houses, peering out of windows, climbed walls, offered bribes. The bait was a baby. The baby's mother was Grace Mailhouse Burnham. The baby's father was unknown. Baby Vera had been eugenically conceived and born. Intelligent, well-to-do Mother Burnham had wanted a baby. These facts she admitted freely (TIME, Jan. 30). Newspapers empurpled columns with the history, speculated as to papa, collected opinions from bigwigs and gumchewers. To deepen...
...America; W. E. Betteridge, President of Lakeside Biscuit Co., Toledo; Thomas J. O'Connor, President of Purity Baking Co., Chicago; Benjamin Ernstein, President of Barnard Phillips & Co., Bankers, New York; C. K. Corbin, Lawyer, Jersey City. At the head of the board of trustees will stand Grace Knight Babson, wife of Trustee Roger Ward Babson, famed financial dopester. At Babson Park, Massachusetts, Trustee Babson creates charts, graphs, tables of statistics, advises investors. At Babson Park, Florida, Chairman Grace Babson will train her flock to use charts, graphs, statistics, become investors. Trustees of Bennington College, chartered in 1924, to open...