Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the Society, Judge Robert Grant '73, will preside over the meeting. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton Hon, '23, President of M. I. T., will be the orator, while the poet will be Professor Francis Greenwood Peabody...
...justly proud of the renown of his remarkable career, but he appreciates to the full the admirable qualities of Mr. Hanihara, he holds in highest esteem the splendid attributes of Mr. Hughes, and, in the course of his supplementary speech on May 8, while regretting his inability to grant the President's request for an extension of time in which to negotiate abrogation of the agreement with Japan, did not he say, with courtliness approaching enthusiasm, of Mr. Coolidge...
...which every twist of the story is made to add a little more to the general excitement; one is not so entirely absorbed in following the action, one has leisure to ravel in the luxurious loveliness of Miss Owen, delightful mendacity of Frang Lalor, and the grotesque terror of Grant Mitchell. And repetition seems to rob the situations of none of their humor...
...code used between the German Embassy in Paris and the Wilhelmstrasse (German Foreign Office). One day, so the story runs, M. Caillaux was in conclave with a German official. Said he: "Why should Germany refuse me this? I know the German Government has already instructed its Ambassador to grant it." Result: Germany changed the code, and France lost one of her most important defenses...
Engagement Broken. Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, 64, rector of the Church of the Ascension (Manhattan), and Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 46, divorced wife of W. E. D. Stokes (TIME, Nov. 12, THE PRESS) and Major Philip Lydig. She announced that the engagement was broken "owing to Bishop Manning's refusal to give his consent to a marriage in the Protestant Episcopal Church...