Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper accounts (if you will look them up) and my own recollection as an eyewitness close at hand, it was not the daughter but rather the wife of President Roosevelt of that day who christened the Kaiser's sailing yacht Meteor. I have a vivid memory of the grace and distinction of the lady who broke the bottle over the bow of the racing yacht in Nixon's boatyard on Staten Island. I feel sure that my memory is not at fault because I have always looked upon Edith Carow Roosevelt as the most gracious and distinguished woman...
...prohibit the sort of thing in question. If, as is very likely, University Hall is clinging to tradition in the fear that dining hall decorum will be upset by the entrance of liquor, and in the fear that the name of Harvard University will thereby gather no grace, let it consider these ancient, yet nonetheless staring facts...
From the opening gong in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Chocolate, his thickly greased hair shining almost grey above his ebony skin, hammered Canzoneri with his customary cruel grace. Canzoneri's flat, froglike face showed neither distress nor surprise. In the opening of the second round Canzoneri sent Chocolate reeling with a right to the temple. Chocolate, astonished, fought his way clear. A minute later Canzoneri doubled him over with a jab to the midriff, smashed a pile-driver right to his polished black jaw. Chocolate flopped flat on his face, his legs twitching. Gamely he dragged himself...
Died. Aida E. M. Birrel Iglehart. 52, Long Island horsewoman, polo sponsor, art patron, Chile-born wife of Importer D. Stewart Iglehart (president of W. R. Grace & Co. and Grace Steamship Co.), mother of Poloists Stewart Iglehart (8-goal handicap) and Philip Iglehart; of pneumonia; in Westbury...
...unremarkable Chicago family. Written with that fresh-cheeked, whole-souled enthusiasm that characterized the late Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women, the book goes through the motions of a serious novel but never strikes solid ground. Readers who remember that Authoress Barnes's Years of Grace won her the Pulitzer Prize (1931) may find their expectations disappointed; those who do not hold her high reputation against her should enjoy the story for what...