Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They play together in Paris and continue in the suburbs of Manhattan. Hope Williams, as the distraught bride, pleads for her husband's love without avail. Then she recalls something her father, a wise old expatriate, had said in Paris: "Love is a compromise in which people sometimes lose grace." This stimulates her to assert her individuality, eliminate the pleading, and thus regain her spouse's devotion...
...full uniform ablaze with medals Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, Duque de Ajdir, Grandee of Spain, Prime Minister, arrives at the Royal Palace and is formally received by His Most Catholic Majesty, Alfonso XIII, by the Grace of God King of Spain...
...High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Spanish forces in Morocco was Don Damaso Berenguer, and a disastrous bloody hash he made of it. Potent, resourceful Moroccan Sultan Abd-El-Krim repeatedly wiped out Spanish forces larger than his own, and in 1922 the High Commissioner resigned in dis grace, greatly weakening by his fall the prestige of his patron King Alfonso...
...Grace Before and After
...prayer or grace' at meals:...I incline to the opinion that particular word is not likely to have been used by New England Congregationalists in the early days. In trying to think up some other word, 'blessing' and 'thanksgiving' came into my mind, and I scored on each, for both are in the index. In 1650 an order stated that the Butler 'is not bound to stay above half an hour at Bevers in the Buttery after the Tolling of the Bell, Nor above a Quarter of an hour after Thanksgiving in the Hall at Meals'; the order was repeated...