Word: gracing
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...Toral. had been executed by a firing squad, earlier in the week. The officer in charge with a pistol which once belonged to General Obregon, had stepped up to the prostrate, bullet-riddled body of Toral, pressed the pistol to the temple and delivered the classic Mexican coup de grace...
...portant and eloquent in the theatre; she and her Civic Repertory Theatre en able the penurious to see good plays, no claptrap. Of more importance in the specific case of Hedda Gabler, her figure has no voluptuousness to soften the cruelty of the character. She can wear with grace the smock-like robe pre scribed by Ibsen, Never without a cigaret, the Le Galliénne Hedda is bored but thinly vital as though blood of ice were quickening her movements, thoughts, words...
Could there be a more charming and delightful excursion into higher education? But the thing that really convinces us that there is something superior in the English system is the Latin grace which is inscribed in the common room of Wadham, and which celebrates the brown sherry for which that college is famous. It reads, "We thank Thee, O Lord, as for all Thy other mercies, so especially for this, Thy creature, brown sherry...
...Dear Miss Lewys: "The President and I are reading your Verdun and Ballads at Brule. He highly prizes this marvelous work. "Grace Coolidge...
...especially when they are poor and come in droves on organized tours. When they are rich they think all Italy is theirs without discussion. They put on airs. They think we are 'natives' who must flatter them and serve them, even though they pay with a bad grace. What Fascist cares a damn for tourists...