Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned from Cubism, Imagism, Analysm, back to the vibrant humanity of the Renaissance. In the Autumn Salon in Paris, this group routed their loud rivals. Much was murmured about latter-day Renaissance. Encouraged, Feitelson, Newking, brought to the U. S. their pictures, which cleverly reproduce an old and gracious tradition...
During the past week Princeton has played the gracious role of host to the Harvard crews. Harvard appreciates the kind and hospitable entertainment extended to its oarsmen and takes this opportunity to express its gratitude to Princeton. Courtesies of this nature do much to strengthen intercollegiate bonds, and in these days when petty jealousies and rivalries are often magnified to formidable proportions, only cordial relations can lay the ghost of extra-mural comment. Princeton's hospitality is but another expression of that unbroken friendship which has long characterized the pleasant relations of the two universities...
...message from G. B. Shaw said: "As the amoeba does not understand birth control, it cannot abuse it and therefore its state may be the more gracious ; but it is also true that, as the amoeba cannot write, it cannot commit forgery; yet we teach everybody to write unhesitatingly, knowing that if we refuse to teach anything that could be abused, we should never teach anything...
...inescapable romantic element centers about Harry Fender, collar advertisement masquerading as a U. S. lieutenant. He loves Doris Patston, French flower-seller with an English accent. She is gracious, with a cool, reassuring voice, nimble limbs, modish good looks. The diligent Sigmund Romberg has drained off another resonant score to match his The Student Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum...
...helped, with his own funds, to develop the automobile, the submarine, the airplane, the dynamite- gun. Growth, he believed, was a matter of interlacing of organization?a theory which he practiced in his own consolidating activities. A captain of industry, still he stuck to the sea, which had been gracious to him; he built, captained, the Grade, the "swiftest steam yacht that ever split the salt." He has been the confidant of Tilden, the associate of Elaine, the purse-bearer of the Rothschilds, the sponsor of a South American Republic (Chile...