Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wisconsin will bow in gracious acknowledgment of your apology...
...Spain there once lived a dissolute nobleman named Don Juan Tenorio who, a trickster of gracious ladies and trusting peasant girls, committed the supreme effrontery of inviting to sup with him the marble effigy of an elderly commandant he had killed. Eerily enough the effigy accepted, appeared stark white at the riotous banquet hall. Awfully he warned his murderer to repent. When the swaggering Juan refused he was lapped accordingly into undying flames...
...XIII was ostensibly on a motor trip when he summoned General Primo de Rivera to supreme power. It might barely be that the King now fancied he could oust Primo for Alba. After much telegraphing to the Royal Hunting Lodge, the blunt, obese Dictator issued a personal and arrestingly gracious statement...
...yearns after a lovely virgin (Rose Hobart) but gets instead the wife of one of his friends through her own chicanery in a darkened room. This lady's husband is in turn involved with Mr. Warwick's wife and the virgin moves safely toward matrimony with a gracious man-about-town. The bedroom doors are all well oiled; they function silently, ceaselessly. What philosophy the play contains issues from the mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There is a spirit of unrest...
...vicissitudes of a varied season make it impossible for either team to carry away from the stadium this afternoon the crown of a championship. But the undoubted strength of the two teams, the expected colorful performance of several of their individual members, and the intense yet gracious emotion of their supporters promises an afternoon fully in accord with the fine old sporting tradition...