Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dying moment won his grace...
...Poloists Pete Bostwick, Bobby Gerry, Ebby Gerry and Eric Tyrrell-Martin of England (entered as Bostwick Field): the U. S. Open Polo Championship; defeating Jock Whitney's Greentree team (Peter Grace, Bob Skene of Australia, Tommy Hitchcock and Jock Whitney) in the final, 8-to-7; at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club...
...puffs with unnatural effort. . . . His rhymes . . . rattle like bleached bones." But The Merchant of Venice, in which money and love go hand in hand and uncorrupted, is a "gentlemen's world," inhabited by "creatures whose only function is to sound in their lives the clear depths of human grace." In Henry IV, however, Van Doren considers that Shakespeare came to mastery by discovering that poetry can be better than beautiful; Hotspur, who hates poetry, is a fine poet "out of a hot love far nothing except reality and hard sense...
...editors of the New Masses mourn Mr. Hicks' fall from grace because he did not--as they did--"thoroughly understand the ideas" of Communism. This is, of course, a perfect example of the militant intolerance which distinguishes Communism as one of the most fanatic of all religions. The true Communist will not grant an inch, even though his intellectual defences are completely shattered. Mr. Hicks, it seems, is not a true Communist. For he still values the integrity of his reason over the dictates of dogma...
...World War" yet, and with the grace of God and the common sense (I hope) of the now neutral large nations, it will never be a World...