Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of a merchant family in an old Hanseatic City, spoke "partly in a sombre, partly in a comical vein of the things of life, of births, christenings, weddings, and bitter deaths". The first outstanding figure in the family line bears still a light touch of eightteenth-century-grace and sprightliness; his-still successful-son is of Victorian solidity, not without a note of religious and general hypocrisy. The third generation consists of one sister of energetic, lively character, and of two brothers; one an entirely useless person, given to a frivolous life much to the sorrow of his parents...
...huge delight of Parisians; but "defaming the police" serves to cover the merry multitude of his bright sins. No one really wants to bright put such a booming, spacious fellow as M. Daudet in jail; but appearances must be preserved, and he has already had two years of grace...
...citing desertion." soldiers of the Republic to desertion." However, the it was only to the Moroccan war (TIME, May 11, War 1925, et from seq.) and not the World War from which M. Chachin exhorted soldiers to desert. So he too has been . . . allowed almost two years grace...
Governor Jackson made no comment on his Attorney General's letter. Less reticent were E. S. Shumaker, head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, Mrs. Grace Altvater, head of the Indianapolis Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, famed Fundamentalist...
...love nature more than I". His works, in consequence, have the elemental force and variety of natural phenomena. With what dramatic power does he at times take us in his arms, hurl us down, and stamp upon us--"Listen to me, base mortal, or perish." And what a saving grace is his gift of humor, just as important in art as in daily life. Beethoven never tears a passion to tatters, never protests too much, can be serious and truly impressive without becoming solemn or pontificial. Before Beethoven, music had been practically limited to the expression of joy and sorrow...