Word: gracing
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That the Labor Party is in power by grace of the Liberal Party is by now a truism. That the Liberal Party is showing signs of compound fracture became evident during the past week. This a priori reasoning led British political critics to forecast another general election within four months...
This book has just been, published by the Macmillan Co. It is called "La Dame de Sainte Hermine," and its author is Grace King...
...University of Michigan Alumnae Association of New England is raising this fund in connection with the $1,000,000 campaign for the Women's League Building which will be erected at Ann Arbor. Mrs. Grace Bonner Williams will sing two groups of songs...
...Japanese, while more than interested, have not so far made their exclusion from the United States a matter of national honor. They recognize that every state must be allowed to regulate its own internal affairs, and although slightly disappointed, have accepted the situation up to date with a fair grace. What hurts their pride in the present case is the fact that they have been treated as a nation of relatively slight importance. Their dignity has been bruised; and they feel that Japanese prestige, which has been carefully built up during the past three generations, has suffered a damaging blow...
...Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern. Its chief concern is to rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from one genuinely funny song about Sing Sing...