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Word: gracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Curzon married first Mary Leiter, daughter of Levi Z. Leiter of Washington, D.C.; a widower, he married Grace Hinds, daughter of the late ]. Monroe Hinds, onetime U. S. Minister to Brazil, widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. The marquisate and earldom now become extinct. Richard Nathaniel Curzon, nephew, succeeds by "special remainder" to the Viscounty of Scarsdale. Lady Mary Irene Curzon, eldest daughter, and granddaughter of Levi Z. Leiter, becomes, also by special remainder, Baroness of Ravensdale in her own right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Imperialist | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...KNOW?Grace George gracefully involved with Bruce McRae in an exceedingly polite sex discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 30, 1925 | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...KNOW- Grace George delicately teases the sex problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 23, 1925 | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

...Goose Hangs High. Another transcription of a Lewis Beach play, this picture is primarily notable for the appearance over the Hollywood horizon of Constance Bennett, daughter of Richard Bennett. She shows much promise, fertile grace and panomimic adaptability. The burden of the story is well sustained on the screen, to wit, that if you but scratch the brass of the heedless young brood of today, you'll find true gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 16, 1925 | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...translations of Meltzer were adept, painstaking, vigorous; they paraphrased the originals as closely as it is possible for the verse of one country to paraphrase that of another. Nevertheless, they were abominable poetry Some of the lines possessed a certain insipid grace; far more of them had the stilted, fustian air that can only be characterized by the adjective "operatic." Such lines as "Naught my sweetheart from me shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meltzer's Plea | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

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