Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great god is Ahuramazda, who created this earth . . . that heaven . . . man . . . peace for mankind, who made Xerxes king. . . . My father is Darius. ... He wrought many excellent things. . . . When my father Darius went away from the throne, by the grace of Ahuramazda I became king. ... I wrought many excellent things...
...Alexander, how could you! Fancy a man living in this year of grace and not following the career of Al Capone! Good gracious me, I should hope I do know everything about him. I get the clippings...
Germany happened to prove fertile ground for the Wigman idea. The formal ballet never flourished there as it did in Russia and France. The average German is ungraceful and the Wigman doctrine demanded less grace than it did muscular control carried to scientific perfection. Her cult, called tanz gymnastik, spread wholesale among housewives and factory workers who found the exercise profitable. Wigman ideas were modified and taught in the public schools. The Wigman Central Institute in Dresden was subsidized for a time by the Federal Government. Unauthorized groups have used the name of Wigman in Boston, Cleveland and Seattle...
...Fayette exceeding anything we have heard, and drew tears from almost every eye"; and to the gracious toast of Judge Story, who presided afterward at the dinner: "Our most distinguished guest La Fayette--He reads his history in a nation's eyes", the famous guest replied with equal grace and spirit; "This Antient University: this Literary Society. This Holy Alliance of Learning & Virtue & Patriotism is more than a match for any coalition against the rights of mankind." Since then, among many other foreign scholars and statesmen, Sir Leslie Stephen, James Bryce, Eugen Kuhnemann, and George Walter Prothero have been chosen...
Peter the Great came to the throne of Russia quite literally through the grace of God, who was, it is true, substantially aided by the inability of the nation to fathom the devious method of Russian statecraft. Before him there had been a period which the Russians themselves have called, "The time of troubles." Anyone who has read the more gay Russian novels will realize how parlous bad must have been these times. After Peter, while the world was waiting for Catherine II, there ruled three weak women, two of them foreigners. They in turn were followed by a child...