Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the great Duke of Wellington, in the course of shooting grouse in Scotland, shot the fundament of a female Scottish peasant full of birdshot, His Grace testily made no apology, and a member of his entourage observed: "The good woman should have been honored by any contact with the Victor of Waterloo...
...gillie, hospitalized, received surgical attention which seemed certain to save his sight. Nonetheless the bare possibility that His Grace the Duke of York might have shot and blinded one of the King's subjects was deemed a mishap so catastrophic as to warrant public concealment...
...directors' meeting in Manhattan, Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel complained that the New Deal was mistreating the steel industry. Secretary Ickes had issued an order that on Public Works projects any purchase of $10,000 or more should , be made from foreigners if the foreign bid was 15% below any domestic bid. Knowing he had a good case, the President took five minutes out in a press conference to explain why the tariff-pampered steel industry had small ground for complaint. Obliged to bid 15% under domestic producers, to pay a tariff duty of roughly 25% ad valorem...
...scale down grand pianos to baby grands, uprights to pianettes. Measuring 45 in. high, 60 in. wide and 25 in. deep, the Vertichord is essentially a grand piano upended, combining the long strings and large sounding board of that instrument with the compactness of an upright, the grace of a spinet. Cost of the Vertichord: $295 to $445. Similar instruments are being marketed by other firms: the Vertical Grand, the Betsy Ross Spinet, the Spinet Grand...
...wiser than the young man of 24 who first paddled and portaged to Flin Flon. He has done his part to uphold the Whitney tradition as the first sporting family of the land, but, like his first cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, he has managed to mix with considerable grace business, horses and the conspicuous restlessness of the very rich. He helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is now its board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State of Sonora, Mexico, where he persuaded truculent Yaqui Indians to raise fresh vegetables for midwinter Manhattan tables...