Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the new ruling requiring vaccination, which took effect this fall, every new student, both undergraduate and graduate, had first to file a certificate of successful vaccination with the Department of Physical Education before being admitted to the University. No exceptions were made to any student; ten days grace, however, was given to those who had not been vaccinated before their arrival in Cambridge...
...words were too dear for her then. The late Henry Theophilus Finck of the New York Evening Post has said: "She had everything in her favor that a fairy could possibly bestow on an operatic artist: a beautiful and amazingly expressive face; a voluptuous figure, with a rare grace of movement; a voice which, at its best-and it usually was at its best-was as lovely, sensuously, as Patti's and infinitely more soulful; a skill for acting realistically which amounted to genius, often making one forget the superlative beauty of her voice; and the supreme gift...
Professor Sachs announces at the same time his gift to the Museum in memory of Norton's sister, Miss Grace Norton, of an Italian fourteenth century painting, "Mourning Over the Body of Christ...
...ground. She was the first foreign woman chosen to serve on the Carnegie International Jury (1922). She loves working out-of-doors. She is 50. Through all her work runs a hard streak of sanity. She seems what many artists would hesitate to seem - completely wholesome. The dancing, the grace, the figure of Pavlowa are among her chief idola tries. She has amazing versatility - portraits, seascapes, nudes, pastoral landscapes, mothers. A. lesser idolatry of hers is prizefighting; one of her noted pictures shows two fisticuffers smashing each other about the ring...
...wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also for bears who ride bicycles. But the literary lapses of Prince William do not suggest the comparison; he rides the fictitious bicycle of his fictions with grace, speed, confidence and dexterity, though lacking, perhaps, the vigor and finesse of a six-day champion...