Word: graces
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...young tinkers and hawkers" who had no opportunity to know anything about politics. This drew from Rhys Davies, Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs, the cutting rejoinder that tinkers were as well fitted to vote as hotel butterflies. "I have no acquaintance with hotel butterflies," parried Her Grace, smiling, "but I know some tinkers. At any rate, hotel butterflies can read and write...
...however vain, which might restore some fragment of joy and courtesy to Vanity Fair, the only permanent institution on earth. In "A Handful of Pleasant Delights", we see the art practised with simplicity and fervor of soul, too honest and optimistically tussling with versification for the polished and invidious grace of the sonneteers Or at least it is so in the following superb example, which merits instant acceptance as the literal truth. Other verses in the book are more fluent and studied...
...Grace Dunmore is represented as a masterful woman who cannot get along with only one husband. She sees her latest flame, Bobby Brandon, leading a gay night life and ignoring her. Jealous, she gets a Doctor to convince Brandon he is in a serious condition of health, and that he must settle down and keep better hours. She sends for Brandon's nephew, together with the latter's fiancee and her mother, to come from Kamm's Corners, and keep Bobby out of mischief. They come, but instead of converting Bobby to family life they are all converted...
...York Life Insurance Company is sending out today between 250 and 400 bills to the men who have subscribed to the Senior Class Fund. These bills are for the initial premium payment on their policies, and there is a month of grace before they must be paid...
...advantage of remaining without this outfit after the majority have succumbed to the exhortations of the Committee and equipped themselves. And since shrewd students of economics may be able to figure out that $10 at the last minute is cheaper than $9.50 during the period of grace, considering interest at six per cent, compounded weekly, the inducement for early ordering should be made more sensational say $9 before the first of April and $27 thereafter. Such a regulation might have a distinctly salutary effect...