Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appreciate greatly the kind reception and the parade of the regiment, and are deeply touched by your magnificent welcome. Apart from the demonstration of the people of Boston, which was most gracious, I am impressed by the appearance of your young men of the Corps, and I am sure that they well make perfect soldiers...
...appreciate greatly the kind reception and the parade of the regiment, and are deeply touched by your magnificent welcome. Apart from the demonstration of the people of Boston, which was most gracious, I am impressed by the appearance of your young men of the Corps, and I am sure that they well make perfect soldiers...
...some of the notions that have grown up about New England, to the detriment of our relations with many another section of the county. We might hope to achieve a new rating also in the eyes of those Southern professors who would come to the North in exchange. Their gracious courtesy has ever been open to fresh conviction. If exchange professorships can be arranged with the South we shall have much reason for mutual congratulation...
...have been the considerate half of all the parties--both those at New Haven and those at Cambridge. But frankly we are becoming weary of always making you happy, to our own distress and at our own cost. We feel that it is high time for you to be gracious to us instead of our being gracious to you. Surely our contention in this matter is only fair and right; we hope that this afternoon you will see fit to show actively your acquiescence. --Yale News...
...concluding, suffice it to say that in Clare Kummer's "Good Gracious, Annabelle," as presented with the fortunate combination of naive Miss Fisher, artististic Mr. Nicander, and droll Miss Vokes ably assisted by the other members of the cast, is a comedy which should satisfy the most critical lover of harmless quips, odd predicaments and finished characterizations...