Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxing on television, and he could shake with laughter watching an unsuspecting guest try to cut meat with a folding knife. The stories that clustered about him bore testimony to the fact that he was (in the words of a friend) at once naive and crafty, simple and complex, gracious and spiteful. When a rehearsal failed to meet his standards, he was capable of kicking over the music stand and storming offstage to rip scores from his studio bookshelves and upset furniture. He loved the players, and yet often regarded them as his enemies. "I want to kill them...
...womb of their College days to participate once again in the Georgian splendors of their Alma Mater. From the lovely new rugs in the main hall embossed with the Veritas Seal to the squash courts on the upper floors, the Club manages to achieve the University ideal of gracious living which never quite comes across in the Houses...
...Gracious dining will return to Lowell House tonight as members and guests will gather to commemorate the one hundreth anniversary of the late President Lowell's birth...
...attain this goal, Perkins has ordered a brief restoration of gracious living in the fullest sense. The meal will feature wine, waitresses, table linen, and Lowell House china...
Forthwith Is Forthwith. Unmoved, the Asian nations, with the harsh assistance of Russia's Dmitry Shepilov, continued to press for passage of a resolution reproaching Egypt's three invaders. As a gracious gesture to the harried British, Krishna Menon came up with a new draft which noted the Anglo-French stalling with "regret" rather than "grave concern." The U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge helpfully assured the British that the word "forthwith" did not imply that all Anglo-French forces must leave Egypt immediately. "If forthwith does not mean forthwith," complained Selwyn Lloyd with understandable petulance, "then...