Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Indianapolis drove southward through a storm its wireless crackled. Lest President Agustin Justo of Argentina feel left out, Franklin Roosevelt, even before meeting him, hastened to invite him also to the U. S. Also a request went to Pan American-Grace Airways, that the 40-passenger Pan American Clipper be held at the U. S. President's disposal in case he, having found the fishing much better on land than at sea, decide to return home...
Your dramatization on the air of the story of Grace Bedell and Abraham Lincoln was splendid, a vivid and fitting tribute to the kindliness of that great man and a touching finale to the quiet drama of my grandmother's life...
...those that Hammond recorded were important. Saying he "would not be so brash'' as to attempt an autobiography, John Gordon Baragwanath gives an "autobiographical minimum" that is so interesting readers are likely to regret he did not add more to it. Son of the pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Manhattan, he was inspired to study mining engineering by Richard Harding Davis' Soldiers of Fortune. Young Baragwanath sailed for Ecuador as soon as he got out of college, hoping to emulate Davis' hero who "figures heroically in South American revolutions, had amorous encounters with spitfire senoritas...
...Court reaffirmed the Mack findings last spring with a few minor modifications. Its pristine vitality gone, its name more a liability than an asset, the Sugar Institute meantime whittled down its activities to the gathering of innocent sugar statistics. Publicly the sugar men took their legal spanking in good grace. Privately they complain that other trade associations were, and still are, getting away with things that the Sugar Institute never even attempted...
Matrimony Pfd. (adapted by James Forbes and Grace George from the French of Louis Verneuil; William A. Brady, producer) is a diverting exercise in marital and premarital geometry, involving nothing so elementary as the triangle. Linda Lessing (Miss George) is an aging, easy-going lady who feels it is time she married, having had three lovers and a son, now grown, whom she was able to send to a good school because two possible fathers claimed his paternity, thus making him "almost legitimate." She is about to marry Victor Martinet (A. E. Matthews) who is aware of her past...