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Brewer's: Grace Days

or Days of Grace. The three days over and above the time stated in a commercial bill. Thus, if a bill is drawn on the 20th June, and is payable in one month, it ought to be due on the 20th…

Brewer's: Grace's Card

or Grace-card. The six of hearts is so called in Kilkenny. At the Revolution in 1688, one of the family of Grace, of Courtstown, in Ireland, equipped at his own expense a regiment of foot…

Brewer's: Sacrifice to the Graces

is to render oneself agreeable by courteous conduct, suavity of manners, and fastidiousness of dress. The allusion is to the three Graces of classic mythology. Source: Dictionary of…

Brewer's: Time of Grace

The lawful season for venery, which began at Midsummer and lasted to Holyrood Day. The fox and wolf might be hunted from the Nativity to the Annunciation; the roebuck from Easter to…

Grace of My Heart

Director/Writer:Allison AndersDirector of Photography:Jan Yves EscoffierEditors:James Kwei and Harvey RosenstockMusic:Larry KleinProduction Designer:François SeguinProducers:Ruth Charny and…

Brewer's: Good Graces

(To get into one's). To be in favour with. “Having continued to get into the good graces of the buxom widow.” —Dickens: Pickwick, chap. xiv. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Painter of the Graces

Andrea Appiani is so called. (1754-1817.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Painter of NaturePainter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…

Grace Kelly Biography

Grace Kellyactress, Princess of MonacoBorn: 11/12/1929Birthplace: Philadelphia Academy Award-winning film actress whose cool beauty launched her career in such films as The Country Girl (1954), Dial…

Rainier III

(Encyclopedia) Rainier IIIRainier IIIrĕnyāˈ [key], 1923–2005, prince of Monaco (1949–2005), a member of the Grimaldi family, which has ruled the tiny principality since 1297. Fiercely anti-Nazi,…

Grace, princess consort of Monaco

(Encyclopedia) Grace, 1929–82, princess consort of Monaco, b. Philadelphia as Grace Patricia Kelly. She acted on stage and television in New York, and made her film debut in 1951. Cool, blonde, and…