Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lone Farmer-Laborite of the Senate, who usually votes with the insurgents. Then too, the President, after a false step, gave in to Senators Nye and Frazier of North Dakota on the question of patronage rewards. And who are these Republican insurgents to whom the President bows with gracious gestures, with whom Democrats and Republicans alike would be friends in perilous political moments? In number, they are six in the present Senate and will be eight in the 70th session-plus a fringe of some half dozen semi-insurgents. In personality, they are as follows...
...squash is a game which should be encouraged, and I hope that Bangkok will provide more courts than it has at present. "I hope, too, that the Siamese will take up the game more keenly than before. It is a great game and is suited to the Siamese." Beaming, gracious, His Majesty then presented a gold cup to the winner of the Royal Squash Racquets Championship...
Kate Nesbitt, like a hard wall beneath gracious ivies, considers her best-loved daughter as good as dead. Sister Mabel's agate eyes gleam with righteousness and curiosity. Sister Janet is a golden haired prig, until love storms her own maiden ramparts...
...Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods and corrupt politicians to prove it?" Yes, gracious yes, the reader remembers-if he is the right reader...
...onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given...