Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Dictator Mussolini has solved the Roman Question, has established friendly relations between the Papacy and the Italian Royal Family, it became sick Pope Pius to make some gracious comment. Declared L'Osservatore Romano, semiofficial Vatican organ: "God has given his sign...
...hours of their lives and is so clever that few women would willingly miss it. Its cast of 35 is entirely feminine and its subject is exactly what its title suggests. Halfway through scene i, Playwright Boothe makes a distinction between Women and Females. Mary Haines (Margalo Gillmore), a gracious and home-loving blonde with one husband, two children and a heart filled with anxiety about reaching the shady side of 30, is a woman. Most of the rest of The Women are females, belonging to Manhattan's restaurant and rotogravure set. Disclosed in bathrooms, ladies' rooms, beauty...
...Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis, urbane and gracious retiring president of the Council, struck the meeting's keynote in appraising the Mission. To his 300 hearers, who represent all the Protestant unity there is in the U. S.-a cautious confederation of 23 denominations with 24,000,000 communicants-Dr. Holt said: "It must be perfectly evident that the appeal of the Missioners has been that of united Protestantism. . . . American Protestantism faces reorganization or disintegration. The Federal Council occupies a more strategic position for leadership in this reorganization than ever before in its history...
...Enrico Galeazzo, Vatican City engineer and representative of the Knights of Columbus in Rome; that the Cardinal wished no elaborate welcome in Manhattan; that his headquarters during his stay would be the great and peaceful Long Island estate of a great Catholic lady, Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, devout and gracious widow of the Manhattan utilities tycoon who left her $9,700,000 at his death six years...
President-elect Wriston married a gracious Vassarette named Ruth Colton Bigelow of Springfield, Mass., has a daughter at Oberlin, a son at Appleton High School. He also has a black cocker spaniel named Robin, a desk exactly like George Washington's, a sizable collection of phonograph records ranging from Gilbert& Sullivan to Bach. He invariably reads while shaving. He will turn up in Providence for the second semester...