Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Built to specifications laid down by doctors and psychologists during the past 40 years, this "average" child is described and dismissed as non-existent in Your Child Is Normal, by Dr. Grace Adams, published last week.* A psychologist whose 15 years of experience include research at Cornell University, social work among Southern mill children and psychiatric treatment of rich "problem children" in Manhattan, Dr. Adams is married, childless. Her book is a guidebook to children, "a unique, interesting and likable class of human beings." Her advice to parents is never dogmatic. Interspersed with references to numerous moppets whose behavior...
With Senator La Follette and Governor Schmedeman sitting on the platform be hind him at Green Bay, the President with the grace of a tight-rope walker ringingly declared...
...chest and hurled it away. It landed in the lap of a sports reporter busily writing at the barrier, cut both his legs to the bone. Before Candido Roig Roura died, the great Belmonte had taken another sword from his mozo de estoques and killed the bull, with infinite grace...
Born of Czech parents in Chicago 27 years ago, she took her first dancing lesson when she was 12. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922, in This Year of Grace (1928). Two months of Hollywood under harddriving, gum-chewing Albertina Rasch were followed by a two-year break down. She is married to William R. Kaelin who is in the treasurer's office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. She hates noise and night clubs, practices her dances an hour a day even when...
...fetch & carrier for the linemen). He wins the respect of his Boss and the protection and affection of Red Blayd, crack lineman, known the country over as an almost legendary figure. Their first job finished, Red takes the Kid along to Chicago where, with the help of Cally and Grace and a big roll, he gives Slim the time of his young life. Then they go on to a new job of rearing towers and stringing wires over the Rocky Mountains, winding up in San Francisco...