Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal to a million sportsmen and sportswomen to send ten shillings [about $2.25] each to dispose of absolutely at my own personal discretion." Such last week was the amazing proposition of the Duke of Atholl, a proposition which he promised to keep open until Sept. 30. For months His Grace has been trying to start a British Sweepstake for charity which would evade the United Kingdom's strict law against lotteries. Originally ten-shilling tickets were to have been sold to anyone who cared to take a purely nominal "test of skill" by arranging "in order of artistic merit...
...memento of a commendable effort to assist British charities and upon the basis that the proceeds of sale shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Ticket buyers, confident last week that they could trust His Grace to do the sweepstakely thing, chuckled at the un successful efforts of London journalists to pin him down. "His Grace's mind is absolutely blank about the details and will be until Sept. 30," reporters were told. Looming behind the Duke of Atholl a phalanx of patronesses, mostly culled...
...birth-month of great U. S. men* has been February; birth-month of most U. S. snakes is July. Last week as the nation squirmed with snakelets, no mother-snake was prouder than Grace Olive Wiley of Minneapolis. She takes care of all the 300-odd live snakes, lizards, fish, birds, bats which Minneapolis keeps in a wing of its public library, but rattlesnakes are her specialty. Some seven months ago she set out to placate Sahuara, one of her male rattlers. First she soothed him with a cloth on the end of a stick. Soon she was able...
...best can we serve our common cause-civilization?" came Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Authoress Mary Ritter Beard, and many a foreign notable. From England came Dame Rachel Crowdy. only woman ever appointed a section head (Social Questions and Opium Traffic) of the League of Nations, and Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, first woman member of a British Cabinet (Labor, 1929-31). From Japan came demure Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, birth control advocate who lecture-toured the U. S. last winter. From Berlin came Dr. Marie Munk, first woman judge in Prussia. At the Columbian Exposition in 1893, women...
...order) one sweltering London night up rose walrus-mustached, bespectacled Charles Richard John ("Sunny") Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (Baron Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and divorced husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt). He had noticed, remarked His Grace, that his confreres were squirming in black coats, swabbing their necks under hard collars. That was regrettable. He had better sense. To the consternation of every Druid, the Duke had come to the banquet clad in white linen trousers, soft shirt & collar...