Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance, was with C. Aubrey Smith in "Spring Again" makes a triumphant return. As the Mother-general in a convent she is warm, intimate and personable. Regardless of whether she is talking, pacing the stage, or merely sitting in on a conversation, the audience is aware of her quiet, gracious presence...
Mark L. Goodman '53 also a host, didn't "want to say anything about the party, except that the Conants were very gracious and interesting...
...sight to brighten a soldier's eye and the President expressed his pleasure and satisfaction in a gracious little off-the-cuff speech during lunch at the officers' club. He also confessed that as a politician he had been completely fascinated by one of the Army's less lethal developments-a pocket loudspeaker which would project the human voice for a full two miles...
...Incidentally," Mather explained, "I felt sure that was why he was so hospitable and gracious to me and my American companions...
...other Epis copal and Anglican bishops as well, plus some 700 lesser clergy and laymen. They heard a sermon from London's high-church Bishop J. W. C. Wand, and then the assembled churchmen recited, from the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing it is amiss, reform...