Word: gracing
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...luncheon we simply say grace...
This in a Manhattan hotel function room. When all the lights were snapped on, a distinguished company, some 1,200 strong, stood each behind his plate while grace was said. A moment later the company sat-ambassadors, whilom-ambassadors, bankers, editors, divines, a general or two ; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson, Authoress Ida M. Tarbell, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Davis and many another...
...flourish, a bow, and the hat is swept on again. A cool survey of the arena, and the hero steps jauntily towards his victim. He arranges his muleta as he goes, balancing his sword ' above it with arch precision. Grace is everything. The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly. He makes it seem the merest trifle to approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty...
Some heroes court the danger even more daringly. Antonio Montes, who was killed in 1907, let the bull come to him for the coup de grace. Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon ?that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada. And there is Gaona, of Mexico,* who fights without a muleta, relying solely upon the suppleness of his hips to elude the bull's furious charge. It is Gaona's boast that the horns seldom miss him by so much as the breadth of a finger...
...doors to the returning student, so soon to undergo the ordeal of Mid-year examinations. There incongruity of the present moment intermingles wishes for a "Happy New Year" with warnings of the approaching period of trial and judgment. The anxious student consults the calendar and counts his hours of grace before the first examination...