Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stateswoman, for she is now Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, a post to which she graduated in 1924, after holding high executive positions in British educational and Red Cross work. Why, then, was it Mrs. Baldwin who christened, last week, the Duchess of Bedford? Why not Her Grace of Bedford...
Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Second largest U. S. steel corporation)?$15,826,142. Previous year $20,246,167. "Unfortunately the economies in production have not resulted in a corresponding increase in the net income, because the prices of steel products have steadily declined," said President Eugene Gifford Grace...
...Grace Mailhouse Burnham, attractive at 37, considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital...
Blossom Seeley as "Roxie" of Chicago is the "sex appeal" of the production. Vividly blond, with a Tanguay voice, and costumes to match, she is the most contagious if not the stellar light of the edition. Miss Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an ingenue Laura Lee she manages to hold down her end of the flighty show rather well. As for the males in the cast, no one but Dr. George Rockwell was enabled or deserved to occupy the spotlight unduly long. After much perserverance he managed to exhaust the resistance...
Moreover, the book is written with not a little grace and skill and discrimination. As a study of manners and morals of the period, it is well worth reading. But it must always be considered not as history, so much as an overtone to history. And those who are preparing for the mid-year examination in Histoty 30a had best stick closely to their faithful Hazens...