Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Presbyterian Church San Francisco, Calif...
...built our seventh chapel car, "Grace," given by Mr. and Mrs. Conaway of Los Angeles, Calif., in memory of a departed daughter and it was set at work in Wyoming. This last car was built at a cost of $25,000. The other cars cost somewhat less...
...lion, $250; Maribou stork, $35; chimpanzee, $400; elephant, $4,000; giraffe, $3,500 (three for $7,500). All in one batch, for $11,000. the Society bought from an Australian zoo 1,200 birds, 300 reptiles, and 200 mammals, mostly kangaroos. From Minneapolis for $250 the zoo got Mrs. Grace Olive Wiley's famed collection of snakes, and for an unnamed sum Mrs. Wiley herself to take care of them and the rest of its reptiles. Only person ever to breed rattlesnakes in captivity, Mrs. Wiley finds her charges "simply adorable," likes to sit sewing with a rattlesnake coiled...
...Hand, youngish, grey-haired private secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the past 14 years, celebrated the beginning of her first extended vacation in four years by slipping into a bright plaid dress and boarding the S. S. Manhattan for Europe. With her on the six-week trip went Grace Tully, stenographer to the President. Said Private Secretary Le Hand : "There are lots of things I never know about until I see them in the newspapers...
...Alabama, goes far toward bearing out his thesis. But Alabamians would have to be thin-skinned indeed to object to the tone of Author Carmer's remarks. Though he makes many an explicit criticism, points silently at some grim conclusions, he also tosses many a bouquet, with a grace that does credit to his hosts...