Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors were amazed, but nonetheless swam with the tide of publicity and patients. They opened auxiliary clinics at Los Angeles and Long Beach. They went before a Senate committee to argue for Government aid for cancer research. They gained a patent for their extract.* Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners, widow of the Buffalo ship owner, newspaper publisher and political boss, William James ("Fingy") Conners, gave Drs. Coffey & Humber her $1,000,000 estate, "The Monastery," at Huntington, L. I. (TIME...
...floe where a weather station might be built, and to thrill Hearstpaper readers. He has radio receiving and sending equipment in the ship, will steadily report the minutiae of his progress, just as the world cruise of Dr. Hugo Eckener's* Graf Zeppelin were reported by him. Lady Grace Drummond Hay and Karl von Wiegand...
Loud have been Mr. Brunt's protests against the expansion policy of Container Corp. President Paepcke answered: "It is very easy to comment on the wisdom of our judgment in the light of after events, but it comes with ill grace from one who voted in favor of each acquisition before it was made...
...audiences how to deport themselves. Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch last week suggested that people wear dark clothing for the performance of Bach's Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew given in Philadelphia with stage and choristers draped in black. Philadelphians take conductors' orders with remarkable grace. Most of them did as little Mr. Gabrilo-witsch asked. But one Ellen Winsor of Haverford objected, said that Gabrilo- witsch was out-churching the churches, that rather than waste time considering their raiment people would do better to make a study of the score...
This posthumous story by the late Henry Sydnor Harrison is more of a sermon than a novelet, may possibly help lift you to a state of grace if you are still bemoaning stockmarket losses. Author Harrison wrote so cheerfully you may like it anyway...