Word: gracing
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Miss Adams was fascinating as usual. Her Viola left little to be desired. She wrought into her part a great personal charm, and a pleasing variety of tenderness and petulant humor, thoroughly in sympathy with her role. In all her motions she was grace itself, which comes to Viola as naturally as it does to Babbie and Peter Pan. The audience watched for Miss Adams when she appeared on the stage, but sighed and clapped when she left, and applauded at every opportunity...
...stocks where he finds Justice Overdo and Waspe, who has been sent there for fighting. The stupid watchmen get into a fight with a harmless madman, and the distinguished culprits escape. This act is further enlivened by a fight between two gallants, Quarlous and Winwife, for the hand of Grace Wellborn...
...middle west have been able to reach home on the first day of a vacation, is not to be given. Residents of Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago, who have heretofore left Cambridge one day early, and men from points farther west who have always been allowed two days of grace, must arrive home anywhere from 12 to 24 hours late for their all too brief rest from College duties...
...Puritan's austerity of grace...
...poetry, Mr. Walsh's "Indecision" contains some vaguely charming imagery-and is not without the grace, fluency and terseness that make for success in the highly artificial form he has chosen. It has clearly lyric quality. "The Racing Blood" of Mr. Husband opens most promisingly. The first two stanzas' description of the Greek foot-race and the Roman chariot race are full of speed, vigor and physical exhilaration; but the third stanza which attempted to trace the same racing instinct in the automobile race, and to give a moral twist to the whole is a woful breakdown. It is hardly...