Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apples. King Vyslav called his sons: "My beloved children, which of you can catch the Firebird in my garden? To him who captures her alive I will give half my kingdom during my life, and all of it upon my death!" The princes answered with one voice: "Your Majesty, gracious sovereign, little father, with great joy will we try to take the Firebird alive...
...that he and Tom Dewey had never discussed the matter in person until they met at Franklin Roosevelt's funeral last April: "I asked Mr. Dewey to come with me to the War Department and I showed him current Magic showing Japanese movements. His attitude was friendly and gracious...
Hutchins himself is thoroughly gracious, a towering and handsome figure who speaks with distinct self-assurance. One who has been conditioned by descriptions of a sneering cynic finds himself very pleasantly surprised. And while the mellow trimmings to American education are every collegiate's joy, there is good reason to give Hutchins a hearing...
...being recorded by the sportswriters as upsets. Popular prognostications, as mentioned above, side with Howie Odell and the Blues. Even the Boston newspapermen, including Jerry Nason of the Glope and happy Davo Egan of the Record are picking Yale--only Arthur Daley of the New York Times has been gracious enough to go out on a HARVARD YALE DiLuzio (193) l.e. Hoopes (182) Fisher (218) l.t. Barzil'skas (207) Dewey (197) l.g. Eiwell (198) Faber (178) c. Overlock (175) LeBart (181) r.g. Schuley (201) Coan (200) r.t. Hollingsh'd (205) M'c'ntosh (178) r.e. Walker (208) Tennant...
Mugwump. Webster always wanted and meant to be a political cartoonist. He shifted to such relatively universal phenomena as a boy's fondness for a dog, or a wife's inability to be gracious when her husband wants a stag vacation, because they syndicated more easily, raised fewer quarrels (of a sort that involved furious letters-to-the-editor) and made more money than cartoons which took a strong stand on the tariff. As for taking a weak stand on the tariff, or on any other political issue, that was for Webster out of the question. Good political...