Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozen reporters in Manhattan's Stork Club, she confided to Columnist Leonard Lyons: "I suffer less when it's only the Times and the Herald Tribune, because then I know that if I should say 'godammit,' they would report that I had said 'good gracious...
...smiling, gracious, obviously eager to please. But an unconscionable mixup in press arrangements soured newsmen, colored their whole attitude and many of their stories...
...Nicholas-how nice to see you again!" cried History. "Wherever have you been? And the Tsarina Alix! Your four charming daughters, I presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
...whole, unfortunate. Unable to make it clear that the Canteen is an all-Hollywood affair, Warner Bros, has gone rather more than all out the other way, and treats itself as if rice were slithering out of its lingerie. But as a grab bag of short turns, encores and gracious gestures by well-liked Warner names (Dennis Morgan, Jack Benny, John Garfield, Bette Davis, Jane Wyman, S. Z. Sakall) and name bands (Jimmy Dorsey, Carmen Cavallaro), Hollywood Canteen is pleasant enough until it becomes plethoric...
...Gloomy Dean, Britain's Very Rev. W. R. Inge, stepped out of retirement to write a cherrily gloomy piece for London's Evening Standard. His theme: the "Passing of the Country House," that spacious, gracious institution as British as the Marble Arch, mutton pie, or Boxing Day. Wrote Dean Inge...