Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROSAMOND B. BEACH Havre de Grace...
...Only four out of ten U.S. families still say grace before meals, said Dr. Gallup...
...candle. The dean looked startled, but stood quietly as Leighton's quick-thinking Vicar S. John Forrest hurried over and began beating him on the back with a hymnbook. In a moment the crisis was over. As the solemn Requiem Mass swept sonorously on ("Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, rescue me from fires undying"), Dean Wheeler hurried out to don a new surplice. "I felt unusually warm," he explained later, "but I didn't know I was on fire until the Vicar beat...
...democracy, like the art of love, is hard to learn (or practice) as long as Pop is in the parlor with the lights on.* For Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur, who fathered the Japanese union movement in October 1945, the problem was how to get out of the parlor with grace and dignity. Necessary occupation discipline had at last collided head on with Japan's experimental democracy...
...strong soil of diverse interests that make up this cosmopolitan House. More than any other, Kirkland has managed to fuse its genuine cross-section of Harvard into a tightly-working group that yearly supports its teams with periodic rallies, and its activities with the only House yearbook to grace local shelves...