Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover took his defeat with good grace. He announced the Government's loan policy: "Complete priority to applications from veterans who are in need." Commander O'Neil urged legionaries to let those in distress get their money first. Veterans Administrator Hines warned that a full loan on which a veteran paid no interest would virtually eat up the face value of the certificate in the 15 years before it matured. Wall Street recovered from its spasm of fear and began to agree with out-of-town businessmen that a billion dollars deflected into retail trade, into...
...women led the field near the halfway mark last week in Toronto. Mrs. Florence Brown, 42, married 22 years, has borne 27 children, of whom 13 are living. Mrs. Grace Bagnato, 37, married 24 years, has borne 20 children, of whom ii are living. Trustees of the will have not revealed the rules which will guide the final selection. Should they count all children born since 1926, Mrs. Brown would lead with seven to her credit as against her opponent's five. Should they, however, count only children born since 1926 and still living, Mrs. Bagnato would lead, with...
These chapters rearrange some of the portraits in the gallery of letters and lucidity of style adds grace to the arguments employed to justify the changes. If Professor Garrod does not destroy contrary convictions he shakes them thoroughly. Arnold, Clough, Emerson, and Bridges, he treats with scholastic insight too rarely found in company of poetic comprehension. His light is sharp and deeply cuts into the body of poetic expression while his own vehicle is characterized by a delicacy that is pleasing respite from the brutishness of many modern critics of letters...
...present Duke of Portland attempted to sell the vase at public auction. Bids stopped at $147,000. His Grace's agents indignantly withdrew it from sale, returned it to the museum...
...Orlando Weber was his action when Dr. Carl Bosch of I. G. Farbenindustrie invited him to inspect the big nitrogen fixation plant at Leunawerk, Germany. To Leunawerk went Mr. Weber, but he refused to inspect the plant except from the outside. This was neither modesty nor lack of grace, but unwillingness to accept a courtesy he could not return. All the world knows about Leunawerk; it may not know about Hopewell...