Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long afterward Rembrandt began to paint the young nurse for his only surviving son, Titus. The girl was named Hendrickje Stoffels, had a broad, gracious face, a handsome throat, deep breasts, coarse hips and legs. By her, her employer had two children but he never married her, possibly because his wife's will made him sole executor as long as he did not remarry. Hendrickje could not read or write but she apparently loved Rembrandt. After her first child, she was expelled from her church. Rembrandt's Biblical subjects shifted from such as Samson Menacing His Father...
Lily MacMillan considered herself a "bright, affectionate girl who knows nothing.'' She was happy with her pleasant work, her sophisticated friends, her artful practice of dodging disagreeable situations. Lovely to look at, light and gracious. Lily "told no anecdotes about admirers, or humorous scrapes in which she herself appeared as a figure of good entertainment value; she did not take out her mirror and gaze, spellbound, at her own reflection; there was nothing consciously graceful about any of her gestures." This paragon of modern virtue fell in love with Lionel...
...interest His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. Then one fine day an imposing U. S. man-of-war steamed up the Bosporus with Admiral David Farragut aboard, for a courtesy call on the Sultan. His Imperial Majesty hastily reversed himself, handed the U. S. Legation a gracious iradé (permit) to build. Hence it happened that in 1869 there began to rise on the Bosporus bluffs five miles from Istanbul and 5,000 miles from Boston an amazing phenomenon-a New England preparatory school & college founded on the notion that mutually hateful young Turks, Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, Syrians...
...tall, heavy-framed man with powerful shoulders and a slow, enigmatic smile, Orlando Weber may have been thought icy by the few hirelings that ever saw him. But with his friends he can be gracious, charming and an exciting conversationalist. For years he has delved deep in broad economic studies, has latterly developed strong doctrines concerning economic nationalism and the necessity of upping farm income by subsidy schemes. These he delights to propound to many an aghast or incredulous Wall Streeter. And he retired not to a leisurely country life on his Mt. Kisco, N. Y. estate but to further...
...prosper, bless and save our gracious King...