Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Roosevelt until her retirement in 1942; of cerebral hemorrhage; during a vacation in Chelsea, Mass. Born in Potsdam, N.Y., daughter of a real-estate man, she went to Washington as a Bureau of Ordnance stenographer, first worked for Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for Vice President in 1920. Gracious, efficient "Missy" stayed on, checking his accounts, presiding at the tea table when Mrs. Roosevelt was absent, deciding which appointment seekers and telephone callers should reach him, answering much of his personal correspondence, sitting with him evenings to take down any vagrant thought. Her voting address was the Roosevelt home...
...considered a moderate. In 1938, he settled a serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...
More & more interested, little Author Leyden pattered from the Levant, through the Balkans, to Paris, met many interesting people in the course of his researches. In Geneva there was cold, gracious Grodek (Victor Francen), who described himself as "an employer of spy labor." He was writing a biography of St. Francis. In Athens there was bulbous, unctuous Mr. Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life...
...TIME (Feb. 28) you have published our picture, a picture of six Polish Pestkas, members of Polish Women's Auxiliary Service, recently arrived to this country. In the short time since our arrival to the United States we had met several times with most gracious hospitality of the Americans and with their warm, friendly interest in our country and the work we were doing. The photograph which you have published recently is one more proof of this interest and we are most appreciative of it. We would like, however, to add a few words of comment and to explain...
...jowl with some of the curiosa of U.S. colonial history-pirates and Quakers, a print of a sea serpent ingesting a naked Indian and a meticulous working drawing of the mechanism of a waterwheel, a picture (done with Audubon violence) of a skunk killing a rooster and views of gracious colonial staircases, the tower of St. Botolph's, Boston, England where John Cotton was vicar and the rather grotesque animal drawings from Brickell's The Natural History of North Carolina. The book is divided into ten chapters, the first covering the years between Columbus' first voyage...