Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capital city of Kabul (pop. 150,000) were important talks with the young (28) king and his two trusted uncles-shrewd Prime Minister Mohammed Hashin Khan and dark-eyed War Minister Shah Mahmoud Khan. From these westernized leaders of 12,000,000 proud and primitive hillsmen, Engert could expect gracious hospitality. There would be tea and coffee, sweet cakes, pistachio ices and bowls of gigantic white mulberries. But whether there would be any cooperation in cleaning out Kabul's squirming nest of Axis intrigue was another question. An old proverb says: "It is easier to march into Kabul than...
Fame. Of all the artists flourishing in the 16th-Century Rome of Popes Julius II and Leo X-Perugino, Signorelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo-none was so gracious, so accomplished or so beloved as Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino. The Church heaped favor, work and riches upon him. At 25 he was commissioned to do huge murals for the Pope's quarters in the Vatican. He became chief architect of Rome. Princely Cardinals and wealthy bankers sought him out to do their portraits or decorate their villas...
...best. Both plot and lesson would have been more palatable, however, had there been fewer muffed lines, missed cues and long, embarrassing pauses. Fay Wray has the main part in the show, and the management tells us in the program notes that it "feels honored to have this gracious lady and actress as guest star." Miss Wray, however, must put better expression into her lines and make her actions on the stage more original if she intends to have her audience equally "honored...
...Equally gracious was Independent Reakes, onetime mayor of Wallasey, a local A.R.P. chief who had sweated himself helping poor families during the blitz. Said he: "It is a victory for Churchill!" But Independent Reakes, like Independent Brown of Rugby, had an addendum: "Our enemies will now know that Wallasey wants a vigorous prosecution of the war with a fight to the finish. The voters are dissatisfied with party politics...
...granted network time to labor "as a public service." While William Green and Philip Murray conferred with President Roosevelt one afternoon, their pressagents Pearl and De Caux agreed to alternate programs and to let a coin-toss decide who should begin the series. Green was willing, but Murray was gracious. As they left the White House. Murray said: "You can have it, Bill...