Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was revealed that, while her famed husband devoted himself to Franklin Roosevelt's affairs, plump, grey-eyed Grace Hartley Howe has done more than sit at home rearing his son and daughter. She is a director of Fall River's Family Welfare Association, Historical Society, Ninth Street Day Nursery and of the League of Nations Association; advisory board member of the Consumers' League of Massachusetts and of various local WPA projects; trustee of the Bristol County Agricultural School and Fall River Public Library; secretary of Massachusetts' Democratic State Committee and vice chairman...
...Labor," observed Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s President Eugene Grace as he opened a new $20,000,000 strip & sheet mill at Lackawanna, N. Y. last week, "is paramount in all our minds today...
Selassie Speaks- Always the embodiment of bird-like grace and dignity, Ethiopia's Emperor read his speech in Amharic, a dignified language in which the syllables telescope into each other so closely that for minutes at a time His Majesty seemed to be uttering one enormous word. Small League fry had no idea what he was saying, but big League wigs listened through earphones to simultaneous translations of the speech, getting it by the flick of a switch in either French or English. Everyone agreed that it was a great speech-one of the noblest, most factual, irrefutable...
...Lords: ¶ Subjected the present National Government to its first defeat in the House of Lords by adopting, 32-to-29, a trivial amendment to the Education Bill opposed by His Majesty's Government but sponsored by the Most Reverend Father Cosmo Gordon Lang. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
...style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in which that wild woman struggled, that artistic lapses seem scarcely more consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty, she was accomplished at taking other girls' beaux away from them, breaking up engagements, winning flattery from...