Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other brands. What, for example, could be sweeter, gentler, more Lamblike than the intimation of The Brown Jug, Brown University's jester, that the Holy Cross footballers dug their teeth into the corpuses of the Brunonian eleven? Evidently college education softens the manners and clothes academic drollery with incomparable grace. The New York Times...
...windows to make it adequate for a good examination room. The janitor will not allow people to wander over the building because he fears they may be careless enough to let some stray cigarette ash fall on her floors and set her in flame, but a moment of grace is granted for viewing her dusty roots. In the heat of the old basement one discovers the remains of the old laundry wringers, now rusty with age. There are stacks of chairs which once were the thrones of exuberant Harvard...
...Moscow the director of Soviet theatres announced that Zany Arthur (Harpo) Marx, maddest of the four brother zanies, would be invited to panto mime in Russia next spring. Star passenger of the Grace Line's new Santa Rosa, maiden-cruising this week from New York to Seattle, is Mrs. Louise Vallejo D'Emparan, 91, only living daughter of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, prominent in California's Mexi can regime (ended 1846) and founder of Santa Rosa, Calif., whence the ship's name. Strong, silent, homely Film Actor Gary Cooper asked the New York Supreme Court...
...heard that evening was in E major, with A sharp substituted for A flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed by sharply defined steps from note to note. The melody included runs, slow trills, turns and grace notes and sounded so artificial that I felt bound to open the window and make sure that the tune was not being played by a human performer out of doors." When Mr. Barnes assured Sir Richard that there was no spoofing, the learned acoustician cocked his ears at all corners...
...saving grace and surpassing virtue of the Transcript is its exquisite sense of humor. The London Times, an historian remarks, publishes documented correspondence on bugs, while the Boston Evening Transcript, as thoughtful and serious-minded as the Times, devotes a page to genealogy. When the Vagabond remembers this he is sure that the poet was too harsh and not at all penetrating when he wrote...