Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Money is not the issue for customers of Hermes, a onetime harness shop founded in 1837 by Dumas's great-great-grandfather. The object is mystique. Princess Grace of Monaco christened the "Kelly handbag," a boxy Hermes classic she often carried. Wearing an Hermes scarf, Queen Elizabeth adorns a postage stamp. Lauren Bacall still slips into an Hermes shop to pick up leatherbound datebooks, and Gregory Peck to be fitted for handmade shoes. But if the rich and racy have always known about Hermes, it is only recently that a New Jersey stockbroker or a Dallas debutante has been able...
...awakened to women's suffering and men's responsibility when his wife told him she had been raped before they met. That is a harsh way to learn a lesson. Better if players would remember that to the ancient Greeks, athletes were the embodiment of both physical and moral grace. American athletes have the first; now many of them must struggle for the second...
...constituent assembly, which met in Frankfurt and drafted an all-German constitution. The legislators decided that they could put their ideas into practice only by offering the crown of a united Germany to King Frederick William IV of Prussia. But he considered himself King of Prussia by the grace of God, and scorned any crown offered him by people or parliament...
...Harvard graduates soon learn, their financial obligation to their alma mater doesn't end as soon as they've paid off the last penny of interest on that $80,000. They are expected to keep the cash flowing for the rest of their long and (by the grace of God and a Harvard diploma) prosperous lives...
...reply, "No problem!" (which, in every language, means that your problems are just beginning). Then he'll direct you to the Julie Andrews musical that the Argentines call The Rebel Nun. And when you say "Thank you" to him -- in Spanish -- it can almost sound like a kind of grace...