Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having been established that Canada is a "country"?whatever that may mean?President Coolidge was at liberty to read the King Emperor's letter: George, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, etc., to the President of the United States of America sendeth greeting...
...Davenport, Iowa, three days later, Blanche Gabathuler, 15, was reprimanded by her grandmother for singing at table instead of saying grace. She rushed from the house, flung herself under a freight train...
...Phillips is a Harvard man of wealth and deep Bostonian rootage.* He had a classmate (1900) from St. Louis: Robert Woods Bliss, who also married a Manhattan girl of wealth and grace (Mildred Barnes). Mr. Bliss began to serve the U. S. in Porto Rico and has subsequently been skillful at Venice, Petrograd, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris, The Hague, Washington. Last week he reached the top title, the Secretary of State announcing his promotion from U. S. Minister to Sweden to become U. S. Ambassador to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, the Blisses will be responsible for the most expensive...
...lover who is also an enthusiast for wild nature, an exhibition of paintings of wild animals by Carl Rungins now being held at the Casson Galleries at 576 Boylston street, should present many attractions, while one with a taste for water colors might well take a trip to the Grace Horne Gallery or the Copley Gallery. Even the Vagabond who wanders further and finds himself at Wellesley, could do worse than go to the Farnsworth Art Museum there and see an original portrait by Tinforetto. But it is hardly to be expected that such a one would be interested...
...Great Britain can afford to be generous and to overlook actions that would probably have precipitated armed conflict in the days of the Opium Wars, it might be possible for the United States to act with equal grace in Mexico and Nicaragua. The situations are admittedly different, yet trade welfare and the protection of nationals and their property has to be considered by Great Britain in China as well as by the United States in Central America. But it is believed in England that the former methods were not as helpful as more generous ones. There seems...