Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Grace Hayes, singer; by Charles J. Foy, son of oldtime Comedian Eddie Foy. Reasons: troubles of money, career...
...book was the fruit of a life-long friendship between the author and Charles M. Russell, the cowboy artist who died a few years ago. Russell encouraged Tucker to write his memoris and had planned to illustrate them, but his death prevented it. Tucker's manuscript was edited by Grace Stone Coates, who has done an excellent job of preserving the authentic tone of the old cowboy's own expression...
...with church people spelling each other, through a second night and a third, by candle light. Curiosity-seekers motored from Chicago and Milwaukee to listen and watch. At last Mr. Dake got up to attend to Revelations himself. Whipping through its 22 chapters in 55 min. he read, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, and flipped the Bible closed. The reading of 773,746 words had been done in 69 hr. 17 min., which Preacher Dake declared a record. (In Cincinnati the Old & New Testament were read synchronously in 16 hr. 40 min. -TIME...
...WELL OF DAYS-Ivan Bunin- Knopf ($2.50). Three months ago few U. S. readers had ever heard of Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin. Now, by grace of his recently-won Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 20), the U. S. public is aware of his name if not of his books. To take advantage of his sudden fame, Publisher Knopf rushed two Bunin reprints (The Gentleman from San Francisco, The Village) through the press, last fortnight brought out his latest (translated) novel, The Well of Days. Readers of this grave, sensitive but unmodern autobiographical novel may now see what Author Bunin is about, will...
...perhaps significant that there has been practically no editorial comment on this decisive victory for the administration. After waging a bitter battle for companies which are now proved to have been guilty of collusion and conspiracy, the papers might at least have the grace to exercise some of the "fair play" about which they set up such a lusty howl. Fortunately, the evidence is so incontrovertible that it does not need editorial elucidation; no one with the energy to look through it can fail to see the justice of the government's action. Even more damning than the actual evidence...