Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ottawa is scarcely less a royal capital than London. Officially George V is styled "By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King." He is therefore in fact King of Canada though never addressed as such. In Canada His Majesty is represented by Governor General the Earl of Bessborough. In Ottawa sedate Lord Bessborough sits on the "Crown Chair." In Rideau Hall he holds a vice-regal reception at which Canadian ladies are "presented." He flies a symbolic flag with a blue field on which appears a gold crown...
...Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich man's daughter, and such stars as Actress Olga Baclanova, began to dwindle. He began to brood, long and darkly. Last June he gave...
...Diego, Calif., Mrs. Grace Cleaves, after two months of waiting for the removal of eye bandages, cried: "I can see! Oh, thank God!", died of joyous shock...
...BEGIN?Helen Grace Carlisle? Harrison Smith...
William Fox, still under subpoena, lay ill abed, rising only when he heard that the investigation was ending (see col. 3). The final session was marked by the appearance of two women who lost money in the market. The Senators listened to Miss Grace Van Braam Roberts of Highland, N. Y., "farmer," suffraget and clubwoman. She was no ordinary sheared, bleating lamb but a shrewd woman who was once a very active trader, whose father was the late Charles Henry Roberts, president of the Carolina Central Railroad and whose brother is Owen F. Roberts, former independent member...