Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Abbott of Grand Island, Neb. is head of the Federal Children's Bureau...
...star, with a high box office rating and a salary to match, it will be a most extraordinary turn of events. His appeal is essentially neither sentimental nor simian. In an era when Hollywood's other successful matinee idols either beat their women or sing to them, he personifies grace, intelligence, poise, wit. Son of a British actor, Herbert Marshall fitted himself, at St. Mary's College, to be an articled clerk. He did so poorly at it that he was forced to go on the stage. Just before the War he played with Cyril Maude in Grumpy. Herbert Marshall...
...written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into a bestseller. Of course most decent men sent the scoundrel to Coventry. But Dinny stuck by him, even in the face of family disapproval. Luckily the fellow had enough grace to leave her, go back to the East where these things do not matter so much. It was a near thing for Dinny, but the implication is that she was well out of it, will be glad later, perhaps will find a real vertebra in the next installment...
...Ambassadors, home on political vacations, plugged hard for the man by whose grace they hold their jobs. Walter Evans Edge, Ambassador to France, flapped his elbows and told a Paterson, N. J. crowd: "The Democrats apparently had us on the run a short time ago but now Republicans are plucking up courage and are back on the firing line." At Omaha Frederic Mosely Sackett, Ambassador to Germany, proudly recalled: "I told President Hoover if Germany prospers the United States would be prosperous and he made a study of the situation. Later the President in a long-distance telephone call...
Meanwhile Edgar R. Dobson was wondering how a "strictly fresh" egg could reach the venerable age of 17 years. Explanation: Washington, D. C. has no law governing storage of eggs. Dealers elsewhere, when the legal time (usually one year, with 120 days grace) for eggs in storage expires, can ship their eggs into Washington, then ship them out again labeled "freshly released from the District of Columbia...