Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After grace and handshakings President Gannon entered on his duties. With 7,300 students, Fordham has outgrown its grassy 75-acre campus in The Bronx, spilled over into four floors of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Promptly the new president announced that sprawling Fordham had finished its era of expansion, would concentrate on extracurricular activities to enrich campus life, bring students and faculty closer together. Said he: "Having a big registration is nothing to boast about. We won't add a single student to the rolls during the next six years...
...Manhattan, told newshawks about a trip he had made in the Congo with Methodist Missionary Bishop Arthur James Moore. Inviting his interviewers to call him "Reverend Trombone" or at least "Homer," Mr. Rodeheaver explained that Negro spirituals had taken him to Africa. Raised in Jellicoe, Tenn., birthplace of Soprano Grace Moore, he knew black amoor harmonies and rhythms early, claims credit for popularizing them as early as 1917. In the Congo, in which he traveled 1.500 miles by Ford, bicycle, canoe, litter and on foot, Missionary Rodeheaver played hymns and spirituals on his battered trombone, often starting alone...
Clothes moths notoriously do more damage in late spring and summer than in winter. At Cornell, however, Entomologist Grace Hall Griswold has shown that the insect breeds all year around. It occurred to shy, elderly Miss Griswold, as to many another investigator, that the dryness of U. S. homes in winter may be what deters moths' winter activities. If this is so, she reasoned, the blessing of air-conditioning would also be a blessing for moths. Miss Griswold and a young associate named Mary Frances Crowell rigged a number of jars in which five different humidities, ranging from...
Divorced. William Ellery Leonard, 60, poet (Two Lives), professor at the University of Wisconsin; by Mrs. Grace Golden Leonard, 28, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. Grounds: cruelty...
...rose Mrs. Grace H. Brosseau, onetime D.A.R. president, now a W. I. A. director, who got a divorce from Mack Truckman Alfred Joseph Brosseau in 1930 because he slapped her face when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. Small, grim, wiry Mrs. Brosseau said that whenever the U. S. had "paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized...