Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge is a very gracious woman. When she swims her lively smile is always visible...
...gullies near the clubhouse; holed his putts on the bleached, worm-ridden greens. Against him played strapping André Gobert, onetime French Davis Cup (tennis) player. André is a newcomer to golf, stiff of wrist, mathematical with his backswing, monstrously strong at long shots; but he needs his gracious, white- toothed smile for such opponents as Monsieur Vagliano. The latter vanquished André, 6 and 4 in 36 holes, became French Amateur Champion. U. S. contestants who reached the third round: C. E. Van Vleck, Garden City N. Y.; Louis V. Cochrane, Lake Forest...
...trip, except that in the evening, the President gave a handful of cigars to policemen guarding the station platform at Norwich, Conn. Next morning at 8:00 a. m. the little train pulled into the station at Salem, Mass. A crowd was waiting. The President and Mrs. Coolidge, "his gracious spouse," as a Washington newspaper described her, appeared on the rear platform. Several office-seekers hurried to them?Senator William M. Butler, who will have to face the Massachusetts electorate against onetime (1919-25) Senator David I. Walsh next year, and Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, widow of the late representative...
...South, transplanted." The Author. Miss Ellen Glasgow of Richmond, Va., now 51, tries not to pretend. Her materials, as early as The Voice of the People (1900) and The Miller of Old Church (1911), have been the roots and sap of human experience, treated not clinically but with a gracious hardihood. If it is in the romantic vein to regard fortitude and other sombre virtues as cultivable. Romanticist she is. But that distinction is unimportant. The great pity is that so painstaking, firm-handed a laborer has not yet the genius to discover native plants and feel them growing inevitably...
...then to Menlo Park, later to Orange, N.J., where his home and large factories now are. Outside "the old man's" office, a placard advises visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might his motto be the one which is the heritage of the Princes of Wales-"Ich dien" (I serve...