Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words applicable either to His Majesty's keeping company with Mrs. Simpson or to the Sovereign's skimpy attendance at Church. "In his public capacity at his Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish he gave more positive signs of such awareness." (In sending this out British Press associations suggest that editors tone it down by omissions. Next day the Bishop says he wrote his whole speech six weeks before...
...Field Army against Cancer, squads of Pennsylvania women trooped to Philadelphia last week to be told that cancer is curable if detected early, to be urged to spread this word to other women. While these women were busy being told how to avoid death from cancer, Dr. Grace Medes, 49, of Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital Research Institute wondered whether the strange sulfur sprees upon which she periodically goes will ever give her a cancer...
...Ensenada, Lower California, Mexican taxi drivers refused to carry passengers disembarking from the Grace Line's 5. 5. Santa Elena. The Mexican Confederation of Labor proclaimed a boycott of all U. S. ships...
Matrimony Pfd.-a trigonometrical sex figure in which Grace George gets A. E. Matthews...
...granddaughter of California's late Senator James Graham Fair; and Henry Gassaway Davis III, coal scion, grandson of West Virginia's late Senator and Vice Presidential nominee, Henry Gassaway Davis, divorced last August by his new wife's cousin, Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter Grace; in the saloon of her father's $2,500,000 yacht Aha, moored at the Vanderbilt nine-acre Terminal Island, off Miami Beach...