Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High Mass- they went, 700 strong, Had the Martian proceeded to the Witherspoon Auditorium, he would have heard them sing a song, Hail, Mary. Then he would have heard theological utterances; which, apparently to the satisfaction of all present, gave the coupe de grace to certain people variously styled as heretics and modernists. And he would have heard applauded a speech by one Father Joseph G. H. Barry, advocating reunion with an institution known as the Roman Catholic Church. " This, " said the Reverend Father, " is what it appears to me we can accept as a basis...
...that the. Trojan War was fought principally for the strategic reason of obtaining possession of the Dardanelles, the study of at least one of the dead languages may take on a certain flavor of romance which almost always attaches itself to the historical past, but which sometimes refuses to grace what is pure fiction. The legend of Roland, for instance, dying in the Roncesvalles, is far more appealing to the imagination than any wholly man made fairy tale. If one can believe, no matter how faintly, in what one reads and hears, interest increases to a surprising extent. While...
...usser is a wandering fanatic who arrived in Berlin soon after the War and announced himself as "the prophet of the millennium," "President of the United States of Europe" and "healer by the grace of God." He wanders all over Deutschland dressed in a scanty brown garment that leaves his legs bare...
...year ago, now that they have come and gone. But the book will be of no small value to the professional reviewer of the screen, as well as the earnest student of the cinema, if there be any such. It is filled with information, treated with a saving grace of humor. The writer lists the best pictures within the period covered by his book, as follows : Nanook of the North, Grandma's Boy, Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Eternal Flame, Shadows, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, Peg o' My Heart, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Driven...
This brilliant experiment in informing the public of the existence and na ture of foreign affairs deserved imitation. By grace of the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation, the Uni versity of Chicago has established its own Institute of Politics, the first ses ssion of which will be held this Summer. Erroneous despatches in the metropolitan press stated that supporters of the new school had attacked its Williamstown rival as "popular," publicity seeking, insincere...