Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressional Committees engaged in formulating legislation of significance. "Ten thousand dollars unviolated looks handsome. The Congressional tengrands get badly nicked. The most appalling item is the slice torn off for campaign expenses. Then come the tickets for balls and kindred entertainments. . . . Congressmen are considered easy marks and their names grace many a list of angels, honored by the company of America's leading philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend. A politician has to be charitable and charity tugs not at the heart, but the purse. ". . . Our extravagances are expressed before...
...years, said His Grace of Canterbury, the Church had been slowly correlating the elements here presented. The proposed changes would in no way compromise the essential principles established by the Reformation, but they would mould antiquated rules of Church discipline into harmony with modern needs. For example, the need of extending facilities for partaking of Holy Communion had made it seem wise to sanction reservation of the Sacrament (see RELIGION). Finally, Their Lordships should be guided by the action of the Assembly of the Church in approving the volume now presented for authorization...
...many U. S. advertising clubs had already done, the New York Advertising Club last week examined advertisements written by local pastors to explain "What the Church Has to Offer Men." The prize advertisement, written by Dr. Walter Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan: "Without ideals, life is mean- "Without a purpose, it is flat- "Without inspiring power, it will fail. "The Church can give to men ideals, purposes, power. "In the lives of prophets and heroes and in the life of Jesus Christ, the Church holds up the ideals by which character and achievement must be measured...
...flirt of the red, a small but purposeful bull charged, horns down, to gore the President of Mexico. Swirling the cape through a classic "pass," he pivoted and dodged-his chunky body suddenly achieving grace. While guests Morrow and Rogers gripped their seats, President Calles brought off three more hazardous "passes." Then, having shown his guests the dexterous and dangerous phase of bull-baiting, he strode from the ring. No bull was killed, or even pinked, lest U. S. gorges rise...
...graduate work at Yale in music and art. After serving as art critic for New York newspapers and as a writer of special articles, he traveled extensively through the Far East, contributing to the Chinese and Japanese press. Married, he lives in Manhattan. Two years ago he published The Grace of Lambs, a collection of short stories which was widely acclaimed. Juggler's Kiss is his first full-length novel...