Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Battle of the Boyne to the year of grace is 235 years. During this period, many wise political leaders in Britain have sought to find a solution of the ever-changing Irish problem. To the eternal discredit of Britain, not until the year 1921 was a so-called solution found: the Irish Free State came into being. But this expedient-for it was no more than that-was not the beginning of the end but seemingly the end of the beginning. Ireland is still a most distressful country. Arrived in the U. S. for a lecture tour James...
Most people believe that it was Horthy that crushed the Bolsheviki. This is not so for when, in 1919, he entered Budapest on his white charger at the head of the 'National Army, the Bolsheviki had already fallen under the coup de grace delivered by the Rumanian Army. But, none the less, Horthy has consented to take the credit...
Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace...
...speak the truth. Our Anglo-Saxon friends like that, and there are many who share our opinion. France isn't pleading her cause. She has given her signature and she will respect it, but she demands as her right and not as an act of grace that there be taken into account in the settlement her side of the balance sheet...
...halmas, their tinkling clavichords, the surge and thunder of the Odyssey is an error in criticism. They do not belong to the period the less by being in reaction against its stridencies. Among the more capable halma players is William, Griffith. His note is small, facile; it has the grace of not taking its grace too seriously. Of Pierrot the poet he sings, and of Pierrette who is beauty; their loves and losses, songs, sighs, their tears that fall like spangles in a snow storm by Debussy...