Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago the announcement would have caused more of a stir, but since the Hoover Moratorium it has become increasingly evident that it will be a Herculean task to force resumption of Reparations when the year of grace is ended. London and New York took the news calmly; only the French Press screamed in anguish...
...most beautiful buildings in the Yard is a red brick Georgian dormitory which exhibits the simple grace of Puritan England. It is a very famous part of Harvard Great men have broken the ice in their water pails of a cold January morning in days past. Its name is the nom de plume of a contemporary writer. It has looked down upon the Yard while countless generations of Harvard men have trailed out of Sever, and it has seen many able presidents trip on the third stone step of University Hall as they mount for the day's work...
...holiday dance last year Allan Hoover danced first with Fannie Homans, niece of Secretary of the Navy Adams. His first partner this year was Grace Roosevelt, daughter of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. of Porto Rico. Washington gossips again overemphasized the significance of that first dance. More than 200 of Washington's nicest boys and girls began rigadooning in the East Room promptly at 10 p. m. Piece de resistance of Orchestra Conductor Meyer Davis' repertoire was "Moonlight on the Santa Clara," which he composed himself and dedicated to Allan Hoover to signalize the occasion. Revelry ceased...
Wife of the onetime Ambassador to Japan and very rich, Mrs. Larz Anderson finished the libretto of an opera, Marina, to be produced in Boston, Jan. 11. Music was written by Composer Grace Warner (Mrs. Moses H.) Gulesian...
...Susquehanna is one of the hardest working rivers in the U. S. From its headwaters in Broome County, N. Y. to its duck-teeming delta at Havre de Grace on Chesapeake Bay, it flows through a busy industrial district. Neither long nor deep, it has no ships moving up & down it; work for the Susquehanna means power plants, not navigation. In the last 33 mi. of its course three great hydro-electric systems derive their energy from its waters, plants capable of producing more horsepower than any other hydro-electric development...