Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said one young mother, a former co-ed flapper, "I have not taught my children to say their prayers, but at least I have the grace to be ashamed of it, and I am not married to a Columbia professor either but am the wife of a mere salesman...
...mother said her little girl visited her grandparents and came home with a prayer taught her by her grandmother, which the mother felt was a merited rebuke. Another said her child learned little prayers and grace at table at the kindergarten or preschool, which relieved her very much as she wanted her child to pray but had not taught her any prayers because she did not like "Now, I lay me" and thought the Lord's Prayer too long and difficult lor a child...
...good Congregationalist is Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, wife of Calvin. She is also a versifier of parts. Last week Maury Madison, composer, who made a parlor song of Mrs. Coolidge's The Quest (TIME, July 7, 1930), appeared in Washington. He plans to hunt and set to music lyrics written by wives of U. S. Presidents, such as Mrs. Herbert Hoover's free verse "interpretative of the discarded pine rafters of the White House," which she carved into gifts. Composer Madison had with him a religious song in which Washington's First Congregational Church became interested. There...
...have sung successfully, roles like Norma, the priestess in La Vestale, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, operas which might never have been revived if there had not been a voice with the range and flexibility of Ponselle's. She has still much to learn. She will never have the grace of Bori, the subtlety of Garden, the force of Jeritza. She has heavy Italian features, difficult to disguise. But her voice, critics almost without exception say, is the greatest to be heard today. It has brought her glamorous reward. Her concert earnings average $3,000 an appearance, her broadcasts...
...guests will be the three leading actresses in "The Little Racketeer," Queenie Smith, Grace Hayes, and Cherrie Dale, Continuous music will be furnished by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, will be spelled by Roy Lamson's Harvardians, while a complete floor show will be staged by Coconut Grove actors...