Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who saw Baron Passfield glance occasionally at the Peeresses' Gallery, wondered what he was thinking, how much of his nervousness might derive from a gracious lady of 71 who sat there calmly watching the ceremony. She, Mrs. Beatrice Webb, last week proved again that she is the same independent, energetic person who, even before her marriage in 1892 to Sidney Webb, was an authority on economics. She has collaborated with him since on more than 30 books and tracts. In 1923 after 30 years as active members of the Labor and Socialist movement they framed their first indictment...
That is why it seemed unusual and significant last week to hear gracious, scholarly Henry Watson Kent, secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, than whom Art has no more steadfast devotee, say at the anniversary ceremonies of the Yale School of Fine Arts...
...think you improve every week. But in the article on Mrs. Hoover in the last number, where you say, "The small-town lawyer's wife has been succeeded by the cosmopolite's wife," you seem to depreciate Mrs. Coolidge. When have we ever had a more gracious lady in the White House, or one more universally beloved throughout the land? I, too, admire Mrs. Hoover, but I never did like the cry, ''The King is dead! Long live the King...
TIME certainly meant no depreciation of gracious Mrs. Coolidge. The distinction drawn was purely one in kind, not degree, of charm...
...Tokyo created a hostess problem almost as interesting as Washington's strange affair of Mrs. Gann. Positively the Empress Nagako could not serve. She is with child. Therefore the Sublime Emperor, Hirohito Tenno, descendant of the Sun Goddess, promoted to the rank of hostess for a day the gracious Princess Setsu, wife of the Emperor's next older brother and heir, Prince Chichibu. Not so long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week she stood in a smart Paris frock...