Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street Court last week Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sir Rollo Frederick Graham-Campbell fidgeted beneath his robes and wig. Royal Dukes, Archbishops and Dukes are the top dogs of the British peerage, and below Sir Rollo, quietly awaiting judgment as a prisoner, stood that jovial, ruddy sporting peer, His Grace the Duke of Atholl, lord of 200,000 Scottish acres, master of the only private army in Great Britain and a War hero who won by conspicuous bravery in action...
...ends the first round!" boomed Atholl as his eminent counsel Norman Birkett, K. C. appealed the case to a higher court. "I think," continued His Grace, "that I can claim to have already achieved some material progress in my campaign to establish some sort of charity lottery in the United Kingdom. This must be done to end the present scandalous state of affairs in which British money is being taken from this country by the Irish and other foreign sweepstakes [see below] to the detriment not only of British charities but of the country as a whole...
...only because we have come to associate LIGHT AND ITS EFFECTS with the theatre. Try throwing over the back of the empty chair some soft material in cream or old ivory. . . . Place [a light] below the chair, but so the light shines up into it. Just before the Grace is sung, switch off all the lights in the room except . . . the light which shines on the chair. Its presence will be felt throughout, even though the other lights go up again after the people are seated."-Instructions for Golden Rule Dinners...
...throughout the nation today a mass reaction against the speak-easy and the bootlegger, nor are the causes of that reaction difficult to trace. These institutions have provided the people, in most cases, with a brand of liquor potable only in defiance, and they have done it with bad grace, at an exalted price level, and amidst surroundings which were, except in the largest cities, incredibly sordid. The bootlegger, whenever he advanced in his calling to the point of professionalism, became a public enemy in the way that any large class outside the law does; he settled his differences outside...
...Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri; by Mary McCormic, operasinger; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers. She is writing my life story." Property settlement: Prince...