Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professors are, after all, rather idiotic. They straddle the twin steeds, scholarship and teaching, with what grace they can muster; they balance the exactions of rent and food with the pittances of Maccenas and the endowments of his kind--and they have to attend their own nine o'clock. Yet despite all these hardships they repeatedly assert that they like their calling, find it fascinating. "Idiots", insists the busy world. But the busy world knows only a small part of this idiocy, appreciates it in a most trivial...
Late one evening Joseph P. Tumulty returned home in Washington from a dinner. He had a severe cold. He thought he smelled gas and went upstairs to find his wife and daughters, Grace and Alice, violently ill and coughing. A physician was called and found them suffering from monoxide gas poisoning. The kitchen stove was suspected...
Every morning at seven, the Weather permitting, His Grace the Earl of Rosebery, Baron Primrose, Baron Epsom of Epsom, rides out over Epsom Downs in what the Times has declared to be "perhaps the only private carriage in England which is still guided by postilions...
...hundred years Christian missionaries have struggled hopelessly to capture the hearts of the Calif-awed Turks. They had come, said Mr. Barton, to suspect that "the Moslem was outside the sphere of the operation of divine grace...
...fellows and above all his love of little children, we praise Thee." Dr. Gordon with gentle wit, to sympathetic laughter, put his arm about Mr. Burbank, saying: "We would be delighted to receive Luther Burbank into the fellowship of the church. No doubt he would increase in grace under my ministrations...