Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complain of the character of this consignment, although I notice that you do not guarantee delivery. The price you put on them, however ... is entirely too high. You offer me a chance to be the Democratic nominee for the Presidency, which carries with it, in this year of grace, more than a fair prospect of becoming President of the United States. In exchange, I am to abandon forthwith and immediately a law practice which is both pleasant and, within modest bounds, profitable, to throw over honorable clients who offer me honest employment, and to desert a group of professional colleagues...
...Berengaria (Cunard)?Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York; Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; the Countess of Amherst; Karl Bauer, famed German publicist; Hale Hamilton, playwright, with his wife, Grace La Rue, singer; George H. Doran, famed publisher; Ben Ali Haggin, designer of Ziegfeld tableaux; Arthur Hopkins, producer; John Conley, "tin foil king"; Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, wife of the famed banker, with their 17-year-old son, Roger W. Kahn, famed saxophone player and jazz leader; Mortimer Slater, Editor of the Jewish Morning Journal...
...Manhattan, ten University of Michigan undergraduates strode up a Grace Line gangplank, bound for Lima, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, La Paz, Iquique, Antofagasta. Bidden guests of most of the South American Republics, the ten were escorted by two members of their alma mater's Romance Language staff. They bore with them to South American universities the good-will of Marion L. Burton, Michigan's Coolidge-nominating President. In addition to conditions social, economic, political, religious, which it is their intent to scrutinize, the Michiganders may see a being who has long excited the curiosity of the American advertisement-reading...
...WONDERFUL VISIT?H. G .Wells almost made sentimental in this appealing story of an angel who falls from heaven and nearly falls from grace...
There is one man in England today who is less ambitious than formerly, and he is Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, winner of the 145th Derby -by grace of the three-year-old "mud horse," Sansovino...