Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ecuador. At Callao, Peru, Secretary Hull and party boarded the sleek, sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...
Last week the District Attorney of Warsaw confiscated 1,000 suspicious-looking divorce petitions in the Orthodox consistory house, obtained indictments not only against five Orthodox bishops but also against the highest prelate in the church, heavy-bearded Archbishop Djonizy (Dionitius) Waledynski. "Your Grace," cried the District Attorney, "I accuse you of abusing your legal powers!" For such abuse the Archbishop faced a possible sentence of five years in prison...
Born. To Frank Couzens, 31, Mayor of Detroit, son of Michigan's Senator James Couzens; and Margaret Lang Couzens; a third son, sixth child; in Detroit. Weight: 10 Ib. 8 oz. Engaged. Grace Green Roosevelt, 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. 28. Baltimore architect, yachtsman, big-game hunter. Engaged. Edith Cummings, 34, one-time (1923) women's national golf champion, equestrienne and big game hunter, last spinster of Chicago's famed Wartime ''Big Four" socialite beauty quartet;* and Curtis B. Munson...
...GRACE OF GOD is called down daily upon the Senate and the House by Chaplains Ze Barney Thome Phillips (right in cut below) and James Shera Montgomery, respectively. House Chaplain Montgomery (Methodist) was less flowery than Senate Chaplain Phillips (Episcopalian). On opening day last week the latter began, "God of our fathers, Fountain of light and love, before whose boundless gaze the seasons roll in majesty and might, and man, Thy miniature divine, was made to walk the earth in joy; incline, at this momentous hour of the newborn year, our thoughts to prayer, our lips to praise...
...race horses in England. He has sent his string over to France. Is this setting a good example? "Dukes, I understand, are made to look up to. We are told they stand by their country. Where should we be if we copied them? "Perhaps this behavior is because His Grace has met with troubles in England, but I think one shouldn't shirk his duty. One should put personal pettinesses on one side-life isn't beer and skittles, even to a duke. And a duke should know he is able to stand up to trouble...