Word: gracing
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...might be said that a protest against the name would have come in better grace before, rather than after the defeat by Brown. We do not think so. The University at large cares very little about the name of a scrub team so long as it limits itself to playing unimportant teams. But when a few men who call themselves the University team play against the accredited representatives of another college and the impression is given to the public that the contest is between the two colleges, the University has a right to demand that the team which bears...
...where an apology was needed. It is not for us to criticize the action of the public in being annoyed, - it is for us to apologize, not as if we were made to, but as if we did it voluntarily. Such an apology as ours is robbed of its grace and is hardly worth making...
...Chicago, and for quite a season in London. "Sowing the Wind" is said to be the best play Sydney Grundy has yet written. Its plot is simple and unhampered by extraneous incident. Its development is direct and logical and its treatment is original. The language is full of grace and precision and the author has handled a necessarily dangerous subject with delicacy and finesse, yet with distinctness and force that unite to give great strength. For this play Mr. Charles Frohman sent to the Columbia a specially selected company headed by J. H. Gilmour and Miss Mary Hampton...
Play will begin each day at 10 a. m., and at 2.30 p. m. The order of the matches, the courts and, as nearly as possible, the hour, will be posted at the grounds, and players will be expected to report at the time set. After ten minutes' grace, any player not appearing will have his name scratched out unless he has previously notified the referee...
...been ill since last Thanksgiving, but he had been able to be up and about until a week before his death, when he was seized with acute Bright's disease. His funeral was held at his home in Concord street, the Rev. F. E. Emrich pastor of the Grace Congregational church officiating...