Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander of 167 East 74th Street, Manhattan, gave a party. The oldest of her guests was 13 and the youngest two were five. Mrs. Alexander is the mother-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Her guests were: Grace, 13; Theodore, III, 10; Cornelius, 9; Quentin, 5 (children of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.); Edith, 9 (daughter of Ethel Roosevelt Derby); Kermit, Jr., 9; Willard, 7; Clochet, 5 (children of Kermit Roosevelt...
...Dodges have interested themselves in educational and relief work in the Near East. William Earl Dodge, father of Cleveland H. Dodge, was the first President of the American College at Beirut, a position now filled by his grandson, Bayard Dodge, on a salary of $1.00 a year. Miss Grace Dodge, sister of Cleveland, was President of the Constantinople Woman's College until her death; while a daughter is the wife of George W. Huntington, who is Vice President of Robert College...
...unfortunate probationers are doomed beyond respite. Those who have found favor in the eyes of the gods of University Hall now burn incense and take childish joy in comparing the marks of grace and distinction bestowed upon them. They rush to festivities; exult that the agony of suspense is over; and first realize that upon grades and hope of grades they have fashioned their lives for the last four weeks...
...Know. Behind this somewhat enigmatic nameplate stands the structure of a highly entertaining comedy. Within the structure, stands a delightful personality?Grace George, vigorously assisted by the staccato Bruce McRae. Taken as a whole property, She Had to Know is one of the most attractive of current theatrical investments...
...Thomaston, Me., in 1850. His people had always been shippers; he, looking-for his first job, went to "every shipping office in Manhattan," but no one would hire him. Thereupon he wrote himself a reference, had cards made which declared him to be an. expert dock-clerk, entered Grace & Co., shippers. Quickly he rose, became rich in a time phenomenally short even for that era of expansion. He pounced upon every new idea, helped, with his own funds, to develop the automobile, the submarine, the airplane, the dynamite- gun. Growth, he believed, was a matter of interlacing of organization?...