Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grace of God and by the recently expressed will of 78% of her 250,000 subjects, the Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, reigns and rules over Luxembourg. Her richly wooded and softly meadowed realm dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany. Her capital, the City of Luxembourg, rises aloof and serene upon a small plateau. Her mild and irreproachable consort is Prince Felix de Bourbon-Parma. Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent...
Your admirer of Dumas will not find fault with their work. Zound's, Mortiou's, diavolo's there are in plenty. Gentlemen insult each other with perfect grace, and draw their long steel on the lightest provocation. Madame De Chevreuse still plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise...
...Suspense?the alternation between hope and depression?is, after all, something that our natures demand. And here is where the newspaper comes into our routine lives as a saving grace, snatching us from this dreaded, lingering death by boredom...
Reported Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, most derisive of U. S. novelists, specialist on babbitts, medicos, parsons; to Miss Dorothy Thompson, foreign correspondent of the New York Evening Post. From Naples, Arthur Lewis vigorously denied the engagement, pronouncing the rumor "ridiculous and even libelous." Mrs. Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis is now in Reno, admittedly to obtain a divorce...
Married. Edwin Rowland Blashfield, 79, famed mural painter; to Miss Grace Hall, 58, writer, of Manhattan...