Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visiting diplomats find Washington society more hectic, more alcoholic, and less chic than that of European capitals. They go to parties because they have to: drawing rooms are their workrooms. But they miss the sure social structure of London, the intellectual tone of Paris, the darkened grace of Rome's great palazzi. They deplore the fact that official Washington society is made up of small-town politicians, uninteresting businessmen, journalists, and wives who wear the same dress three or four times. Embassies used to be consecrated ground for uninhibited splendor-but no longer. Now host and guest alike feel...
...remarkable that at 64, after a career of vigorous scoffing, Lewis has written a serious study of an idealistic minister and presented him as a sensible and sympathetic character. It is still more remarkable that he has done so without ridiculing Aaron's personal struggle for grace and his hope of salvation, that he has made the forlorn life of the mission adventurous despite the total lack of adventurous incident, and that he has never let the whole affair fall below a plane of good-natured raillery...
...afternoon at the final session of the conference, Alonzo G. Grace, Director of the Education and Cultural Relations Division of the Military Government for Germany, will deliver a talk on the conference's keynote, "Education Toward What...
...State Department publishes its own confidential beginners' guide. Sample information: a tiny coffee cup is a "demi-tasse"; a Queen, in informal conversation, may be called "ma'am," but never "madam"; only severants call a duke "your grace," to a diplomat a duke is just "Duke...
Josephine Baker, 43, irrepressible U.S.-born chanteuse, was rehearsing for her first postwar Folies Bergére. The angular grace, the crossed-eyes mugging and full-throated hollering seemed like the old Jo, even under considerably more costume than the girdle of bananas which first made her the light brown toast of Paris 23 years...