Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apostolic Majesty. Under Chancellor Dollfuss the word "republic"' was stricken from Austria's Constitution. So was the phrase "the country's laws emanate from the people." The Constitution now reads "the country's laws emanate from God" and the House of Habsburg has always ruled "by the grace...
...fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his countenance to an actual nominee of his own party is almost unprecedented. Yet to shake Upton Sinclair's hand in welcome at Hyde Park would have tended to confirm Senator Hastings' inference. With the best grace...
...different way. Major Granville Roland Fortescue, stepson of an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, was a Rough Rider in Cuba, White House military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, explorer, World War correspondent, A. E. F. field artillery officer wounded in action. Today he is a prolific fictionist. His wife, patrician Grace Bell Fortescue, is a cousin once removed of the late great Alexander Graham Bell. Their eldest daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie, got world-wide attention two years ago in Honolulu's sensational rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932). Daughter Thalia more recently has made headlines by her divorce from...
...least among the reasons for the estrangement last year of the late Duke of Marlborough and his Boston-born Duchess was the insistence of Her Grace that the family spaniels be allowed to breed in the Bow Window Room of monumental Blenheim Palace. Last week, two months after her husband's death, the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough was discovered living in a secluded farmhouse outside Oxford. With her were 80 Blenheim spaniels...
When Clark was a youngster, he and his friend Hal discovered an old cutter, shored up but with timbers still sound. They spent happy hours putting her in shape; Virginia and Grace helped them. The four planned to sail away together until money ran short. Hal skipped out promising to return. Clark married Virginia. Years passed. After his wife died Clark took to the sea, but it was too late for roving. He preferred the lightship where time stands still...