Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long a faculty member and in 1932-35 vice president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport. A heavy-footed, horny-handed farmer's son, he coached football and baseball, taught Latin and manual training. Said he last fortnight: "I'm bringing two chairs I made to grace the Episcopal residence at Nashville...
Wearing a black gown and a black-veiled mitre, there arrived in Manhattan last autumn His Grace the Most Reverend Theodosios Abourjaily, Archbishop of Tyre & Sidon, Metropolitan of Judadeh and personal delegate of Alexander III, Patriarch of Antioch in the Syrian branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of North America, with 60,0000 members, had been without a head since 1934, when Archbishop Victor and his two immediate subordinates died. To select a successor, Archbishop Theodosios was dispatched to the U. S. by the Patriarch to supervise an election in which all male Syrians over...
After it defaulted, Price Bros. had a short period of grace to make good. Knowing there were only some $11,000,000 of bonds out against saw mills, power sites, 8,000 square miles of timber, two newsprint mills capable of 1,100 tons daily, the bondholders' committee prepared to hang on. Meanwhile many a potent user and producer of newsprint eyed the ailing company's assets with interest. When the bankruptcy ax finally fell eight months later, officers began to appear from such sources as Britain's Bowater's Paper Mills Ltd., a syndicate headed...
...troupe was back in Manhattan for a two week stay at the Metropolitan Opera House. This time the bread and salt had brought an abundant harvest. There was a great clamor for tickets, a queue waiting for standing room. Persistent applause greeted the dancers who could spin with such grace, leap with such ease...
Married. Michael Grace ("Mike") Phipps 27, grandson of the late Steel-master Henry Phipps and the late Shipping Tycoon Michael P. Grace, international polo player (handicap: eight goals); and Muriel Pillans Lane, British socialite; m Palm Beach...