Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hinted at rather than asserted; but the implication is (as it was in This Freedom), "Back to the home!" But Bread succeeds where This Freedom failed: in its fidelity to the actual conditions of life and its lack of sweetie-sweetiness. A long book, crammed with detail, written without grace, without style, with little humor ?but highly readable...
...Coolidge, pale, and silent, read the telegrams telling of President Harding's death. Then he slowly dictated a statement expressing his sorrow, and his intention of carrying out the policies of his predecessor, and also a telegram of condolence and sympathy to Mrs. Harding, signed "Calvin Coolidge; Grace Coolidge...
...Grace Goodhue Coolidge, wife of the President, is universally well spoken of and liked. She is a college woman (University of Vermont), as was Mrs. Cleveland before her. As the wife of the Vice President her entertaining was not extensive or magnificent, but she was known as a gracious hostess. She made an exceptional number of friends, and has a remarkable memory for faces and names...
...will come from is one which the steel heads profess to find difficult. They are anxious to have the immigration law altered to admit more immigrants, which would help to keep down the prices of labor and probably decrease the chances of the industry's being unionized. President Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation is one of those most insistent on the need for more immigrants...
...Louise Stanley, dean of home economics at the University of Missouri, was appointed by. Secretary Wallace to head the newly established Bureau of Home Economics in the Department of Agriculture. '. She will be the third woman bureau chief in the Federal Government, the others being Grace Abbott and Mary Anderson, heads of the Children's and Women's Bureaus of the Department of Labor...