Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grace of God. Frederick Lonsdale, Englishman and author of the season's smartest light comedy, Aren't We All, has written another of the same. The drawing-room deftness of Norman Trevor will be applied to the leading role, with Estelle Winwood prominent in his support...
Before President Harding sailed for Alaska from Tacoma he announced the receipt of a letter from the Iron and Steel Institute. It was signed by the directors of that body, including Elbert H. Gary, Charles M. Schwab, James A. Farrell, E. G. Grace and others. The letter accepted in principle the abolition of the twelve-hour day, and promised that the change from the two-shift to the three-shift system would be brought about as soon as there was a sufficient surplus of labor...
...authority on etiquette. He has that faculty of telling you exactly where your trousers should be creased. He dresses with as much care as Hugh Walpole; but by a regular adherence to the rules of the daily dozen, his weight has remained that of a young man of grace and poise...
Edward Mandell House of Austin, Texas, (Colonel by the grace of a former Governor of that state, who made him his aide-de-camp without asking permission) sailed for Europe a few days ago. Shortly after his departure, Foreign Affairs, the excellent quarterly published by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., an organization connected with the Williamstown Institute of Politics, in the interests of international understanding, published an article under his name, entitled The Running Sands...
...best thing of its kind since The Red House Mystery. MY FRIEND FROM LIMOUSIN−Jean Giraudoux−Harper ($2.00). Awarded the Prix Balzac for 1922, this highly original and satiric novel, should prove a most acceptable literary plate of anchovy sandwiches for those who like a certain fantastic grace and suppleness in their reading matter. The plot−involving a Frenchman picked up on the battlefield, who suffers complete loss of memory, recovers in a German hospital, is mistaken for a German and becomes a leader of post-war German thought, only to be discovered...