Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reminded him of sewage." I wish my husband was here to write you the indignation he, a doctor, would have felt at your indecency. "Joseph Lister slopped carbolic acid."' Ugh I Evidently you never heard that medicine is a ministry. I am sure Dr. Lister performed his miracles with grace...
...reviewer, who knows poor Tony well at college, and who respectfully begs to differ with Mr. Kay's comments on "He Who Believeth". The book-reviews are pleasantly undignified, and Mr. Howe calls Elmer Gantry a nasty old thing and Paul Cocleau the Adolphe Menjou of literature with equal grace. The tilt at the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, by Mr. Abbott, begins with a gloriously mixed metaphor and goes right on being funny. It is pleasant to read The Man with a Briar again. He was another of my classmates, at college, and I see be is as full of windy...
Eugene G. Grace, President, Bethlehem Steel Corp.: "At the annual meeting of my company's stock-holders last week, Richard A. Jones, retired Manhattan businessman, refused to vote for the re-election of Director Alvin Untermyer, son of Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, declaring that Samuel Untermyer gave comfort to 'undesirable Reds' and was 'a man of Bolshevist leanings,' and that the son could not 'escape adopting the same policies.' I answered that Alvin Untermyer was a substantial stockholder, as was his father, that he had served on the board three years...
...well known. The Abduction From the Harem is not. The story is simple: A Spanish maid kidnaped by pirates and sold to a Turk, almost rescued by her lover, is finally released from the harem through the courtesy of the speakable Turk. The music is Mozartean, was rendered with grace and spontaneity by the cast which excelled as a ombination rather than individually. The im- pression of critics was that the group performed well, that opera in English could be sung intelligibly, that the University of Rochester maintained an advanced school of music...
Though levity on the subject of Sacco and Vanzetti may be out of place, the fall from grace of Boston's most respected newspaper has its serious elements. To many dear old ladies, the Transcript's using a dishonest headline will appear as a greater calamity than the miscarriage of justice in Massachusets. Even Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden would hardly have looked upon such an event without perturbation...