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...Lord Hailsham and Mr. Baldwin became "Our right trusty and well beloved Counselor Douglas McGarel, Baron Hailsham, our Chancellor of Great Britain . . . and our right trusty and well beloved Counselor Stanley Baldwin, our Prime Minister and First Lord of our Treasury." The warrant was given "of our most especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion." The potent conclusion read...
Decrowding by deportation will not begin, announced Il Duce magnanimously, until the expiration of a three months' period of grace...
...army, was one of the first young Chinawomen to become a Y.W.C.A. worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...
...Most of the time a chill and dreary drizzle fell, alike upon the silent crowd and on the many twinkling limousines which hurried, one after another, up to the palace door. From these descended such personages as Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet Ministers, and their excellencies, the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Court St. James's. Never did Fate mock at a more distinguished company in their impotency to stay with sympathy the progress of disease...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...