Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death was, however, not quite ready to snatch away Armando Diaz, then 51, and quite unknown outside the Army. By a miracle he recovered from his battle wounds and lived to die, last week, in bed, of bronchial pneumonia, at 66. The 15 years of grace thus granted by Death had enabled Colonel Diaz to become Marshal Diaz, the nation's military idol, the first commander to lead United Italy from national defeat to national victory...
...Kraetzer, Jr., Chairman, and Ruth Harvey; N. J. Beisel, Jr., and Grace Powell; J. D. Bowersock, III, and Jessica Matlock; A. H. Donahey, Jr., and Barbara Rollins; A. S. Farnham and Julilly House; W. R. Faulkner and Marion Milnor; D. S. Greer and Charlotte Mason; K. W. Hooker and Mary Etta Williams; F. M. Mitchell and Hazel Duncan; S. B. Roberts and Ethyle Hansen; H. W. Rubsamen and Ruth Pearson; G. A. Sawin, Jr., and Doily Harris...
TIME is such an excellent periodical that I must call your attention to an error commonly made in the United States of America. The name of the great pianist is I. J. Paderewski. Right. But ... in speaking or writing of his wife you should designate her as Madame Paderewska. GRACE C. D. FAVRE...
...some of them printed stories about how the fake had been effected, not forgetting to stress the foxlike guile of Mlle. Roseray's press-agent who had fooled all the clever reporters. The witty, wisecracking Walter Winchell, columnist to the pornoGraphic, gumchewers' sheetlet, alone had the grace, in this second and even less justified burst of free advertising, to praise that rakish, lean and sporting sheet, the New York Telegraph; its reporter had entirely disregarded the melodramatic antics of poor Mlle. Roseray...
Musically speaking, she had not "done it." To the musically intelligent, it mattered little that 22 years ago Grace Moore was just a little thing in a muslin dress, lisping "Rock of Ages" in a Tennessee Mountain Church. They confined their attentions to the voice which Grace Moore, 27, used to sing Mimi in the special performance of La Boheme which served for her debut. They stamped it as fresh, smooth and appealing, but small, often insecure, often unfaithful to pitch. Her acting, utterly uninspired, was satisfactory by reason of its simplicity...