Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into battlemented Blair Castle for a conference with the sporting Duke. Last week in Bow Street Police Court the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Edward Hale Tindal Atkinson, applied for a summons against the Duke of Atholl for violation of the lotteries act. The judge granted it, calling His Grace before the grimy Bow Street bar next week to answer to the Crown for his wit. Atholl had popular British sympathy last week because everyone knew he had really been trying to save for British charities some of the vast sum that annually goes across the Irish...
...announced, "shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Some 337,000 Englishmen had enough faith in the Duke of Atholl's dis cretion to pay ten shillings each for tickets. From the proceeds His Grace last month gave ?60,000 ($290,000) to British chari ties, chiefly hospitals. The remaining ?36,000 he distributed as 748 "gifts" to certain ticket holders whom he vowed were not lottery winners. The biggest gift was ?2,000, the smallest ?10. Asked on what system he had selected...
...boys at Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, Conn.) trooped into their dining hall one night last fortnight and, after the sudden short hush for grace, fell to gobbling and talking in a cheery, noisy hum and clatter as usual. The polished brasses gleamed by the big fireplace over which a great white bust of Homer looks down his nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., onetime wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch dials in the Orange, N. J. plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer) ; in East Orange. Eighteenth employe of the plant to die of radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were settled out of court...
...could drum up enough orders for rails to tempt the four steel companies into shading their price from $40 a ton (TIME, Oct. 16). Efficient Mr. Eastman promptly came through with orders for 844,000 tons. U. S. Steel's Taylor, Bethlehem's Grace, Inland's Block and Colorado Fuel & Iron's Roeder, the only railmakers in the U. S., agreed to submit strictly independent bids. Rail rolling, however, is no cut-throat business. For eleven years the price never varied a cent from $43 a ton. Last year it was downed $3. No responsible steelman...