Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...October issue of the Michigan Club of New York's Gothamite, which might give a new sidelight to the Harvard-Princeton football question. No doubt there are a great many readers of your paper who would be interested in knowing what Michigan men think of Harvard's most gracious condescension in permitting Princeton, who has only beaten her by a grand total of 70 to 0 in the last two years, to remain on her schedule. Very truly yours, Jeremiah C. Waterman, Princeton...
Died. Lola Fisher (Mrs. Kenneth Thompson), 34, actress; in Fleetwood, Yonkers, of tuberculosis. She played in Rio Grande, Under Cover, Be Calm Camilla, Good Gracious, Annabelle; acted with William Courtney, Ethel Barrymore...
Behind his hectic official acts, Sam lives a private life. His gracious but abstracted, unaccountable wife drives into a ditch and dies, leaving him more than ever dependent on Delphine, a mistress of effulgent dark beauty whose simple devotion he is continually driven to suspect by his millionaire's obsession with "the underlying motive." A weak heart does not add to his joy in their relation, and in her the War had developed a vein of melancholia. Yet they have happy moments together. She is a refuge from the thoughts with which he paces the Embankment; from the ignominy...
...most commonplace objects and the constancy of spirit which keeps attachments with fine people inviolate in their highest mood. Deathly poor and dying bitterly, long after her bright New York days, she spent gold pieces, hoarded in an old glove, that masses might be said for her gracious friend, Madame Modjeska, years dead...
...milk of human kindness; she dispensed the type of advice that people gobbled up. She became an oracle - thousands of letters swarmed upon her. She began syndicating her "stuff"-success smiled. She wrote books-more smiles and happy hearts. In New Orleans they admire this grey-haired, gracious "little lady." She might have been prim, had she not been a woman of the world...