Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother objected* to her marrying Calvin Coolidge. Mrs. Goodhue has been quoted as having said she 'never liked that man from the day Grace married him, and the fact he's become President of the U. S. makes no difference...
...Grace Coolidge seems to have gone back a long way for her psychology of marriage. . . . He may not be all that she desired in her romantic moments, he may be boorish around the house, but after all, the progressive social esteem accruing to the wife of a Northampton Mayor, a Massachusetts Governor, a President of the U. S., is not hard to take...
...Guests were embarrassed. Grace Coolidge was not. She leaned over so as to see around a floral centrepiece and, looking the President squarely in the eye, said with a smile...
...take place in Chicago and I promise you a million communions as a spiritual bouquet to your august presence." So spoke His Eminence, George William Cardinal Mundelein to His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, nearly two years ago. Fiat!?and the well-beloved Cardinal, who also is His Grace the Archbishop of Chicago, set himself to gathering (there is no culling in Roman Catholicism of the present day) his flowers of faith?gorgeous roses dewed with the jewels of eminence, lowly poppies jeweled with repentent tears, episcopal orchids and unseen violets, flowers of the field and of city back lots...
...Chicago, with its Catholic population of almost a millon and a half, his Grace, for he is Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, has full opportunity for the workings of his multiplex genius. He assumed his archiepiscopal duties at the end of 1915, having come from the auxiliary bishopric ol Brooklyn, and immediately took leadership in the religious, political, patriotic, educational and civic life of the city...