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Engagement Broken. Miss Emmeline Grace, daughter of Eugene Gifford Grace, President of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, to Sir Michael Bruce, descendant of the Kings of Scotland, whose engagement was announced last December. Although the engagement had been broken several months ago, no announcement was made until last week when he married Miss Doreen B. Greenwell of Cheltenham, England, in London...
From 1711 to the Year of Grace, the Ascot races have marked the end of 214 social seasons. Last week, the King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Henry, Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles; Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat"), the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, onetime (1908-10) King Manoel of Portugal and his consort drove in semi-state from Windsor Castle to the race course. Down the turf, cheers thundering on either side, the royal party were driven in open carriages with postillions and outriders in scarlet...
...endowment of any professorship bespeaks grace in the donor. Few bespeak also an interest equal to that recognized by Harvard men in the Theodore William Richards chair in Chemistry just established in his alma mater by Thomas W. Lamont, Harvard, '92, in memory of an elder brother, Hammond Lamont...
...Abraham and Solomon, none dreamed that the motive was not pious procreation, though a crony of the Prophet's was a "professor of midwifery," and Smith, a handsome six-footer, had been heard to say: "When- ever I see a pretty woman, I have to pray for grace...
...afternoon, Grace Goodhue Coolidge 1) laid the cornerstone of a hospital, 2) attended the annual garden party of a unit of the American Women's Legion...