Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerfully present last week in Manhattan when Knoedler Galleries opened what many critics considered the peak of the season's shows-a loan exhibit of Goya paintings. The pictures came from the discreet walls of Andrew William Mellon, Harrison Williams, Oscar B. Cintas (American Car & Foundry), Eugene G. Grace, Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their Don Vincente Osorio, Count of Trastamara as a Child from their huge living room in Manhasset. Jules Bache lent his often exhibited Don Manuel Osorio, an engaging infant half-surrounded by three cats, a bird...
...Traveling in Europe for his health, Chairman Schwab was absent from the annual Bethlehem meeting for the first time in the memory of the oldest present. A stockholder declared there was "no excuse" for Mr. Schwab's high salary. President Eugene Gifford Grace, whose bonuses had twice topped $1,000,000, shushed him by replying that the company could never repay its debt to Founder Schwab. Thereupon the stockholders took a vote of confidence in priceless Mr. Schwab, only five dissenting. Rail orders were up, current operations were 52% of capacity against an average for the industry...
Followers of Major Clifford Hugh Douglas' economic theories will be pleased at Author Converse's sympathetic reference to Social Credit. And even those whom James Joyce calls "gracekopers" might find food for meditation in this proletarian grace...
...Eddington work on the internal constitution of the stars, the Jeans's work on stellar dynamics. Theorists prize Eddington's Mathematical Theory of Relativity, Jeans's Dynamical Theory of Gases and Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. For popular consumption they both write with clarity and grace. The Mysterious Universe by Sir James has sold 123,000 copies in Great Britain, 39,000 in the U. S. The Nature of the Physical World by Sir Arthur, a fatter and costlier tome, has sold 20,000 copies in Britain, 33,000 in the U. S. Both books have...
...Church, the superabundant merits of Christ and the Saints, may be placed at the penitent's disposal during his lifetime to help him pay the debt he will owe God at death. To gain access to this treasury he must first be in "a state of grace." having repented, confessed his sins and done penance (by prayers, fasting and alms). Such indulgence as he is accorded is operative not for any future sins but only for those already committed and genuinely repented. Certain indulgences may work to the benefit of souls still in Purgatory, a place of temporary suffering...