Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage cabaret dancers, unlovely, bawling, quarreling; on-stage cabaret dancers, lovely, smiling, gracious. Into this perennially intriguing background, stalk gangsters, murder, revenge, police, nicely offset by racy comic relief and a love affair between the show- off "hoofer" and his dancing sweetheart. The cast knows the life it is portraying; the authors know the life they are staging. The result is a meticulously realistic production, faithful even unto the garrulous hoofer's discarding his trousers before an unperturbed sweetheart...
...compassionate compassioner. Praise be to God, the Lord of the Worlds, the compassionate compassioner, the sovereign of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship and of Thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way; in the way of those to whom Thou hast been gracious, on whom there is no wrath, and who go not astray. The sixth verse coincides word for word with the 11th line of the 27th Psalm. The religious student notes further the agreement of the ideas here with Jewish and Christian liturgy...
...educated ministers in the U. S. A., perhaps it is easy to understand the furor among the anti-Christian students in China. But, as a matter of fact, these aforesaid students do not represent the attitude of the best Chinese. For their priests and temple officials are almost universally gracious and hospitable toward Christianity, and most of our summer student conferences are held in Buddhist and Confucian temples. I could pray that some of our learned Christian leaders might have more of the spirit of Christ and of the Gautama?might have more faith...
...rate the gracious advice of the Prince to his former countrymen ought not to be lost upon the world. If royalty have been degraded to figureheads, they may yet serve as spectacular and useful ornaments. If he continues to pay the melting pot the compliment of understanding, the Prince will likely capture a public usually crudely sportive where crowned heads are concerned...
...Engineer Louis Renault?at number 90 of the avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne in Paris and at his chateau de la Batellerie (of the canal boat flotilla) at Herqueville, near Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray in the department of Eure, both places well known to visiting U. S. industrialists. Gracious Mme. Renault, she who was Mlle. Christiane Boullaire, made her suggestions. Directors of the Societe made theirs...