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Word: gracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home of pleasant dalliance, high-hearted fair ladies, and a Barriesque unworldliness, Virginia provides romance-weavers with a fabric ready-made. Stephena Cockrell takes heart of grace from this fact and adds another novel to the away-down-south-in-Dixie list. She goes about the task with a directness arguing a magazine apprenticeship. The ever vernal poor girl-rich boy theme is introduced with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Early Autumn Novels | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Ceaseless Shuttles weaving the fabric of international goodwill" was what John L. Merrill, president of the Pan-American Society of the U. S., called ships as the new Grace liner Santa Barbara sailed for Havana, the Canal Zone and South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS-A play about a newshawk who tried being a public relations counsel-written with grace and truth by newshawks who know their racket (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...GRACE HAY'S RECORD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...Grace Hay's record has arrived. I MUST HAVE THAT MAN and I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE are the numbers. A warmer, sweeter voice than Helen Kane, and more subtile. A really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

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