Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman ever carrier weight with better grace. Once when a charitable committee was debating whether a new staircase was needed for an orphans' home, H.R.H. amiably interposed. "There is no need. / have recently descended that staircase without accident...
...made of the preparatory school no more than a necessary link in a systematic, and oftentimes cruelly mechanical, chain. Under the dictates of the Old and the New Plans the secondary school of today is rapidly affiliating itself with the professional tutoring bureau which retains at least the saving grace of making no pretenses or excuses for its existence. A preparatory training should undoubtedly have more to offer than an intensive competition which is limited to the requirements of admission. If the curricula follow the present trend they will lack much that is to be desired...
...aristocratic Edinburgh the news that "Jamie" will be sent this spring as Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland caused rich, old ladies to implore their Maker. They will have to address frumpy Mrs. Brown as "Your Grace...
Among the several composer figuring on the program, Johann Strauss holds a prominent place. Three of his most famous selections, noted for their melodic grace, are to be presented on tonight's program in Paine Hall. The final selection will consist of old Irish lyrics. These last will be somewhat of an experiment in Mr. Whiting's concert, touching a field of music heretofore not included in the concerts. Mr. Whiting at the piano assisted by John Barclay, baritone, will present the following program: Invocazione d'Orifero Peri Ber la gloria d'adorar Bonocino Vergin, tutto amor Danza danza Durante...
Another institution that some Princetonians have long awaited came into existence last week. President John Grier Hibben, in the presence of 1,100 members of the Alumni Association and faculty, accepted from Architect David K. Este Fisher Jr. the keys to the new McCarter Theatre, with the same grace and dignity which he exhibited upon the occasion of the dedication of the $2,000,000 chapel 2 years...