Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the footsteps of his father, who was Governor General of the Islands in 1899-1901, "Doug" MacArthur commanded the Philippine Department (1928-30), where his taste for gracious living and long, jeweled cigaret holders excited admiring native comment. It will be his job to evolve a defense system for the 7,083 Philippine islands which will, as the Press put it last week, make it not an Asiatic Balkans but a "Switzerland of the Pacific...
...81st birthday of Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, was published Gracious Lady, a biography of her by Rita S. Halle Kleeman (Appleton-Century, $3.50). In it appeared a quotation from a diary in which Husband James Roosevelt, 26 years older than she, exulted thus over the birth of their only child: "Monday, January 30, 1882. At quarter to nine my Sallie had a splendid large baby boy. He weighs ten pounds without his clothes...
...Cadogan Gardens. Home then went the Right Honorable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, second Baronet of his line, Privy Councilor, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India and Honorary Air Commodore of Great Britain, to one of London's most amazing town houses, No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. As gracious Lady Maud Lygon Hoare, a daughter of the Sixth Earl of Beauchamp, has said, "It is full of odds & ends we have picked up," many of them brought from distant lands...
...power, security, ease, without having struggled for them, had no experience in statecraft when, at the age of 18, she took up the task of governing Scotland. Unlike Elizabeth, whose wits had been developed by imprisonment and general adversity, Mary had been sheltered all her life. She was cultivated, gracious, unawakened, essentially immature, when she found herself pitted against the greatest queen on earth. A Catholic, she discovered the reality of Protestant influence around her in the first week of her reign, when she was insulted at Mass, defied by John Knox, whose fierce invectives were inflaming the people against...
...cool summer fiction, few readers turn to the snarling, high-pressure, melodramatic novels of the new South. But the South that Stark Young has described in River House, So Red the Rose and other volumes is one of the coolest and sweetest tempered areas in U. S. letters, a gracious, rainless land in which the people all seem to be kin, where liquor and food are always excellent, and where oblique, unconsciously-poetic remarks can be plucked like ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when...