Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardbitten, bright-eyed Mr. Mullen set NBC's assembly lines in motion. Fortnight ago the ' Wallace dream boat slid down NBC's ways with launching speeches by gracious Señorita Castillo Najera, daughter of the Mexican Ambassador, and Mr. Wallace. At network stations the National Federation of Music Clubs, the National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs held listening parties...
...registered with the State Department as a correspondent for The Japan Times and Mail-but he neglected to mention some of his other activities. According to the indictment, he got $350 a month from the Japanese consulate. He lectured, wrote, spoke on the radio, in terms which were gracious and flattering to the Japs. Wiggy Williams' newspaper colleagues greeted each other gleefully with the news. Said a reporter: "All his friends gathered around and tried to get his bail reduced from...
...Chicago's Augustana Hospital, she joined the Army in World War I, served in France, China and the Philip pines. For twelve years before she succeeded Major Julia C. Stimson as super intendent of the Corps in 1937, she was with the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington. Gracious, grey-haired, she wears her major's oak leaves like a veteran...
...fall of France challenged other values. France was more than a country. It was source and symbol of the most gracious, rational and rarified in Western civilization. In this sense, when France fell, night fell. To this dark fact men tried to readjust themselves in books like Arthur Koestler's Scum of the Earth ($2.50); Hans Habe's A Thousand Shall Fall ($3); Thomas Kernan's able and objective France on Berlin Time...
...Once again, Mr. Taylor and I have been able to render a service at a time when it is in the national interest and in a manner that has secured the gracious approval of the President." So John L. Lewis graciously announced to newsmen...