Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then he arose and stood gazing up at the sidewalk level, where hundreds of feet could be seen as they passed the window. He pointed to one seedy pair of Legs, sauntering by on broken shoes. "There, but for the grace of God, stand I," he murmured. Suddenly he swung around and began to talk, crossing and recrossing the office at a single stride...
...half year later than their fellows. Celebrated by no flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they are to the useless unfortunates who are designated with a cabalistic ocC., the time of their passing is significant of frustration overtrumped, of delay ignored, of a quiet determination to outpace their starters that was accomplished in Christian humility...
...left him, she got a job at $8 a week singing in sawdust floored saloons. From that point her story is merely the brief, trite, magnificent U. S. epic of success. Someone who watched her dancing detected a charm that had nothing in common with Pavlova's grace, or with the sweeping symmetry of Isadora Duncan, or with the stereotyped but enticing flections practised now on musical comedy stages by the Duncan Sisters. When Mariana Michelsky sang her songs in the honkytonks, the cheap sports stopped talking and stared at her with the impudence fading out of their faces...
...grace and attractiveness of desk sets added this autumn to the holiday madness through which fountain pen manufacturers pass at the end of each year. For some reason the retail sellers of the pens & pencils always underestimate their holiday trade. Stocks run low; telegrams and long distance telephone talks beg for shipments...
Only the briefest reports from Massachusetts lookouts had told of the plane's earliest progress. The Dawn's regular radio set had evidently expired shortly after starting. The landing field at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, lay white with Christmas snow uncut by the Dawn's landing wheels...