Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost popped out of her head as she sat in the centre of the front row watching everything at once. For company she had Patsy, 7, daughter of Mrs. Frederick B. Butler. Mrs. Hoover's social secretary; Robert, 11, son of Hoover Secretary Joslin; John Marshall, 11, and Grace, children of Hoover Secretary Newton. Peggy Ann's father was there too, plump-cheeked and heavier, out for his first fun since his convalescence at Asheville. Because they were "circus-minded" Mrs. Hoover also took along her White House guests, Mrs. Stark McMullin of Palo Alto and Hugh Gibson...
There are various good books for the seniors to browse in while they lie beneath the mid day sun. "More Boners" for instance will make the veriest dullard feel confident of graduation. "Years Of Grace," the new Pulitizer prize novel, is no worse than most Pulitzer awards. The Vagabond feels called upon to state, lest he arouse false hopes, that Grace unfortunately is not a proper noun, nor yet an improper girl. Quite a wag, the old fellow. And then there is the Saturday Evening Post. Long years ago the Vagabond had a nickle which, being a shiftless wastrel...
...stay in Manhattan. Excerpts: "It may seem like taking a ham sandwich to a banquet, but you'll notice that all of us who have wives are taking them along, too. The party is sure to be dignified and the ladies may lend some grace to an otherwise motley assemblage. All classes, kinds and politics are represented here, but we're going to try to sink our political differences over there...
...Grace Isabell Hammond Conners, 31, the slim, comely, brown-eyed, determined widow of the late William James ("Fingy") Conners, Buffalo steamship, newspaper and political tycoon. The Connerses lived so gaily at "The Monastery," their estate at Huntington, Long Island, that since he died (1929) she has refused to return there. (One of the rooms is paved with old tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic...
Bishop Lawrence was born in Boston in 1850, and after graduating from Harvard College he attended the Episcopal Theological School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1875. After being ordained deacon in 1875, and priest in 1876, he became Rector of Grace Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1893 he was consecrated Bishop of Massachusetts, resigning the office and title in 1926. He is president of the Church Pension Fund, chairman of the trustees of St. Mark's and Groton Schools, and a member of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He received...