Word: gracefulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal. A colleague and reputed confidante of Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence is Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, Minister of Labor. Heeding the grumblings of unemployed miners she summoned miners and mine owners to Downing Street, listened to both sides. After deliberation she offered the grumblers a reduction from an 8-hour day to a 7½-hour day without cutting wages, requested the mine owners to formulate a plan for efficient marketing on a national basis. As neither miners nor owners appeared satisfied Miss Minister Bondfield announced that further conferences would be in order...
...years, the imprint of the university on time will be epochal." In answering the lipstick charge, Dr. Barbour told a story which ended: "I'm the chap who has to eat it." The other charge he admitted, saying: "Scholars should be in the saddle at college. . . . By the grace of God I will give you all I have. . . ." Two days later, down a precipitous, cobblestoned little street in Providence, moved a stately stream of men and women, capped, gowned, uniformed. They had to dig in their heels, so as to proceed with the gravity the occasion demanded, and tortuously...
...welter of May parties, prejudices, Mother's days, fishings, bathings-a whole satirically tinted landscape of Gentile normalities. Lonely, without angels, relatives or the Christ, Lewis quits this stupid paradise, flings himself into the river, returns to the Bread of Life. Author Nathan's mysticism is mischievous, grace ful-perhaps too much so to be taken seriously...
...never rested on the knowledge of his accomplishments. Writing, studying, and understanding, he has maintained his contact with the changing present: and the present will have, at his lecture, opportunity to feel this contact. The title "Growing Old" is significant only when one realizes he grows old with such grace that he seems to live a perpetual youth...
Before leaving the assembly to march back to the Cathedral under a rainbow-spanned sky. the reunited church listened respectfully to His Grace the Duke of York, Lord High Commissioner of the new church who gave "full assurance of His Majesty's interest in and love for the Church of Scotland . . . and of his determination to uphold the cause of Presbyterian government in Scotland...