Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church of the Good Shepherd, Augusta, Ga. There he stayed just long enough to meet and marry Sarah Hardwick. (Said he on his 40th wedding anniversary: "I believe the Lord sent me there so I could find my wife.") Then he served successively at two wealthy, influential parishes: Grace Church, Chicago; St. Thomas', New York. At the latter he reared what many a critic considers the loveliest Gothic church in the U. S., increased the annual income from $90,000 to $600,000, of which $550,000 went for purposes outside the parish...
Last fall the State Department, finding Ecuador unwilling to follow Colombian example, replied to Sedta in kind. Dangling a reported $180,000-a-year post-office subsidy, it hooked reluctant Pan American-Grace Airways into setting up a rival service...
...bombers just pushed their throttles wide open and screamed downhill in a vain attempt to get away. We bagged the lot, the last three coming down in the sea. My ammunition ran out at about 2,000 ft. so I was unable to administer a coup de grace, but it had been a great...
...hint to the people of Italy which no one could miss. In a reply to King Vittorio Emanuele III, who sent New Year greetings as he has done for many years, Mr. Roosevelt sent wishes for the personal welfare of the man who is King by grace of Benito Mussolini, "and my hope that during the year to come the Italian people may be enabled to enjoy the blessing of a righteous peace...
Bach: Piano Pieces (Pianist Grace Castagnetta; Victor; 8 sides) and The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach (a book) by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Simon and Schuster). A new stunt in packaging: the two items, by a pair who have collaborated in other musico-literary ventures, sell for $5 boxed. Miss Castagnetta plays the music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with...