Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a number of sparse brown hackles hooked in his hat band, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, onetime (1916-21) Governor General of Canada, better known as the father-in-law of Adele Astaire, sat alone in a skiff on Blackwater River, Irish Free State, last week, fishing. Among the 186,000 acres in various parts of the British Isles that he owns is that part of the river, Lismore Castle high above it, and the fishing rights. It is reported that His Grace was enjoying himself mightily, listening to the whine of the reel, the swish of line...
...public schools. In Manhattan his longtime ambition has been to build up a training organization where young native artists could gain operatic experience even if they happened to be named Smith or Jones or Johnson. Having sung patiently and courteously with such novices as Mary Lewis and Grace Moore, Manager Johnson wisely promised that young aspirants would have a chance to attain a "natural growth" in a supplementary season. Said he: "I feel that the American artist has never been properly presented. If he has been accepted by the Metropolitan, he has been obliged to sing on the same stage...
Irrational though such behavior seemed at the time-how else could Society, newly emancipated by Edward VII from stodgy Victorianism, memorialize the passing of its leader. . . . True in history he was King of all the Britons by the grace of God, (though actually by the grace of Parliament); Defender of the Faith-the English Faith-a Catholicism without a Pope (a title accorded to Henry VIII by the Pope); Emperor of India, living symbol and standard bearer of white civilization ruling over Asiatic peoples. But in life he was above all a gourmet; the symbol of the pleasures of life...
...Agitator Harry Bridges, the tough little Australian who promoted the San Francisco general walkout, was busy agitating longshoremen's strikes. Closer to home, Opposition legislators were bent on starting a move to have Governor Merriam recalled as soon as the six months' legal period of grace had elapsed following his inauguration. But the biggest headache of all for Governor Merriam was the problem of raising funds to meet the $347,000,000 California budget, swollen by mounting relief costs...
...Last week in London's Old Bailey his profligate father William Angus Drogo ("Kim"; Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, beefy, ruddy, 58-year-old ex-husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail for pawning jewels which did not belong to him. His Grace repeated his most famed phrase: "The trouble is I have been a mug." Also proved a noble "mug" was the fourth Lord Revelstoke, handsome young scion of the House of Baring, whose father was a famed British financier and whose mother was the daughter of U. S. Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard...