Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that we have been lacking in courage, have been less than gracious, and for at least some of us there is little peace in our hearts...
...trend of the past half century is allowed to continue, a picture of the yard fifty years from now will dishearten these who feel a strong attachment to what remains of Harvard's once-gracious heart. Originally the site of undergraduate dormitories and class-buildings of Georgian structural style, this confine has been transformed by the recurring needs of the past 300 years into a vast architectural pudding, spiced with neat tid-bits such as Boylston and Weld. As the needs grew, the landscaping diminished, the charm receded to three small areas, one of which is to be used...
...somebody was going around representing himself as Petrillo. In Hollywood, movie magnates cheerfully upped his studio musicians' pay by 33% (previous annual wage: $5,200), agreed to a 44% increase in the number of regularly employed musicians. From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Nicholas Schenck came the most gracious accolade of all: "We had a very lovely and friendly three weeks of negotiation...
...blue-gowned but urbane Chen, once a revolutionary and after that Kuomintang Minister of Industry and Commerce, did not lose the polite composure that had lent an oddly gracious note to his trial. Bowing, he had told the court: "Whatever judgment your honor may pass on me, I will not appeal...
...widow of New Hampshire's former Governor Henry Wilder Keyes, and author of some 23 books, including 1943's best-selling Crescent Carnival. In Louisiana in 1939, she was impressed by the old River Road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Most of its once gracious plantation houses were boarded up or falling apart; most of their predominantly Creole, sugar-planting owners had moved on. But among the thronging revenants in this graveyard of a once graceful provincial culture, there were a few surviving residents. Novelist Keyes decided to report their struggle to survive...