Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold way stations had food. Her diplomatic talent snipped red tape, got little, necessary things done. King George made her a Lady of Grace of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem...
Letters. To Margaret Ayer Barnes, $ 1,000 for the best American novel: Years of Grace...
...catalog it appeared as "Palm Sunday A. D. 33." It received the sort of press notice generally reserved for the opera of Jacob Epstein: "childish and primitive," "a monstrosity suitable for Moscow." The cautious News Chronicle considered it "astounding." At Private View Day, Ermine, Viscountess Elibank (a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem) approached the painting and announced in the presence of several reporters, "I just can't bear...
...Dupuy who founded Le Petit Parisien (world's greatest daily circulation) and Excelsior which is now managed ably by his widow, the onetime Helen Browne of Chicago; and Prince Guy de Polignac, scion of France's famed, aristocratic champagne manufacturing family; in the socialite Church of Notre Dame de Grace de Passy in Paris; by the Archbishop of Reims (champagne district). To View many a splendorous gift (a portrait by Vigee-Lebrun, family busts and miniatures, a Stradivarius violin for the bride who fiddles ably) came members of the beau monde?U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge...
...procedure of burlesquing the melodramas of the '60s, East Lynne Gone West was for the most part a very solemn affair. The young Mask & Wiggers seemed incapable of brushing aside the influence of their stodgy elders, projecting an atmosphere of good-natured undergraduate fun across the footlights. Saving grace of the performance was Thomas Gihon Jordan '31, the heroine's melancholy, faithful dog. The music was unbelievably pedestrian, inferior to that of this year's Harvard Hasty Pudding Show, Bulls & Belles. It could not compare with the Princeton Triangle Show's "Something...