Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Grace Lincoln Hall Brosseau, president last year of the Daughters of the American Revolution, famed for her defense of the D. A. R.'s "blacklist" of liberal speakers and organizations (TIME, May 14, 1928), member of eight other historical societies; and Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president of Mack Trucks, Inc.; at Bridgeport, Conn. Allegations: two years ago Mr. Brosseau became uncongenial; last May he slapped Mrs. Brosseau's face in her boudoir when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. There are no children...
...back again; he was not meant for monkhood. As Olav grows older and more dour, as his sister's marriage ripens into tragedy and the burdens of the family increase, Eirick shoulders them all, quits himself like a man. Once in a fit of rage he almost falls from grace, is about to murder Olav. But his sister intervenes. Eirick avenges his father's murder more subtly, more Christianly. When old Olav lies dying, his secret still unconfessed, Eirick stands by his deathbed and forgives him. Then he goes to the monastery. This time they will let him stay...
Under the new plans which call for actual instruction by September 1931, the old order changeth. A library of 80,000 volumes, including the Humhoidt expeditions 130 years ago, and undoubtedly the report of Admiral Byrd's explorations at the South Pole, will grace one part of the building. Modern geography is closely allied to all other sciences. The research at the universities in Holland, and at Cambridge and Oxford, the close connection with the City Planning Institutes both abroad and at home, the social and spiritual features of widely separated peoples over the face of the globe are merely...
...travel in Germany and Italy's lake country, when an officer of the Sûreté Général (Secret Service) visited him with a request from the Ministry of Interior to vacate the country within 36 hours. Publisher Hearst spurned the day's grace, took the afternoon boat-train for London. Next day the French Premier explained that the expulsion had its origin in the famed Horan affair of 1928.* Aware that Publisher Hearst had visited Paris unmolested only a month before, observers gave, little credence to the "Horan" reason, recalled instead the aforementioned...
...Grace was a big woman, nearly middleaged, not pretty, a messy dresser. But her husband Tom, fussy fat clerk in an English provincial town, loved her in his own way, realized vaguely she was of finer mould than he. Grace's only child had been born dead, she could never have another. She had almost given up expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only...