Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surely you realize that "but for the grace of God" most of the rest of us (possibly even the august editors of TIME) would be in as embarrassing predicaments. I mean by that: we've been born with cooler natures and brought up with sterner standards, yet who is without...
...troops to scatter them with machine gun fire, chase them eight miles down to the Port of Callao (where T. R. H. were saluted fortnight ago) and end the No. 1 revolution there, after some 60 persons had been slain (one of them Reginald A. Skidmore of the Grace Line, killed by a stray bullet while playing billiards at the Strangers' Club...
...Vagabond is willing to admit that he enjoyed the first subway riot of 1929. Though entirely inexcusable morally, it had, at least, the element of novelty. Those of 1930 lacked even that saving grace. Riots in 1931 are just damn nuisances, painful alike to regular travellers and to students with even a microscopic sense of common decency...
Wrote His Grace the Duke of Portland, twice Master of the Horse under Queen Victoria: "The thing is a stargazing, ewe-necked thoroughbred." British Horseman G. G. Cross gave it as his opinion that it was "a cross between a giraffe and a four-legged ostrich." Loudest objector was Lieut-Colonel Maxwell Fielding McTaggart, author of numerous books on equitation, who for the past three years has been carrying on a bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week...
Because of Sir William McLintock's presentation of the situation White Star shareholders agreed to grant a few more months of grace. Immediately afterwards Royal Mail debenture holders voted to let this company borrow another $1,250,000 to provide working capital during their company's reconstitution. Walter Runciman has until next June to save Lord Kylsant's great Armada from foundering forever in the deep sea of liquidation...