Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propaganda. If any man or woman believes in God and in prayer and is convinced by his conscience that the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill would constitute a calamity to the human race, let him use prayer in legitimate fashion and take his problem to the throne of grace in secret behind closed doors. Possibly God may reward him openly. ... It is not good for religion, it is not good for the nation, it is not good for any cause to have prayer degraded into an instrument of publicity...
...When Grace Reidy, daughter of a Chicago traction executive, set off on her honeymoon in 1913, she had plenty of company. Two baseball teams went with her -the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants. Her father-in-law, Charles Albert ("The Old Roman") Comiskey, founder-owner of the White Sox, had arranged a world exhibition tour for the two teams. With them she visited eight countries, sat in the same grandstand with King George V, skedaddled home just ahead of World...
...reasonable, Mrs. John Louis Comiskey's intimate association with baseball might have ended with her honeymoon. It was not. He ate himself up to a round 400 lb., retired to a hospital to diet, came out and ate himself back up again. This seasonal performance alarmed jolly, portly Grace Comiskey. For her husband was vice president and treasurer of the White Sox. With an eye to the future, she showed up at the ball games, sitting in Box No. 45, near home plate...
Meantime, she bore two daughters, Dorothy and Grace Lou, and a son, Charles Albert...
...Louis took over the White Sox. He lasted eight years. His will be queathed the $2,000,000 ball club to his wife and children, but directed Chicago's First National Bank to run it. The bank, not much liking so ephemeral a trust, wanted to sell. Grace Comiskey fought the action...