Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Longworth's halfbrother, Theodore Roosevelt. Back from a capable administration of Porto Rico, he had been appointed Governor General of the Philippines, was now posing for sound films with brown Sergio Osmena, president pro tem. of the Philippine Senate. With him to his new post was going his daughter Grace, 20, who takes after her mother and who has been studying typing and shorthand to fit herself to be one of her father's secretaries...
...Democratic party nominated him for the Vice-Presidency at its San Francisco convention after Alfred Emanuel Smith had seconded his name. With Presidential Nominee Cox, he campaigned strenuously about the country, took his inevitable defeat with good grace. Then he got out to look for a new job. The pickings were poor. He had to content himself with the vice-presidency of Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, an insurance company run by the late Publisher Van Lear Black. In August 1921 he and his family embarked on Van Lear Black's yacht for their summer home at Campobello Island...
Famed though Mr. Justice Holmes is for the liberalism of his judicial thought, for his vigorous dissents from majority opinions, for his literary grace and phrasemaking, it is likely that he will be remembered longest as a great abstract thinker, a philosopher who practiced his profession under the guise of the law. Years ago he gave Harvard students his high intellectual creed in these words...
There is now on exhibition in the Grace Horne Gallery an exhibition of water colours by Professor J. J. Haffner. These were made during his sabbatical leave, last year, when he travelled extensively in North Africa, and especially in Morocco...
...decorating automobiles with hand-painted silhouets and giving them away to friends. It was said she "enlisted the assistance of Mrs. Natalie Macdonald Hall, a New York artist, in the work of painting and decorating the cars." Last week Artist Hall sued Miss Eames's mother, Mrs. Grace Eames Doherty, for $500.000 charging that she had invented the designs, that Mrs. Doherty had passed them off as her daughter's work...