Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example of unceasing service set by him and by our gracious Queen Mary; for strength and steadfastness bestowed on him and for the love and loyalty borne to him by a great family of peoples and in all parts of the world, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name...
...Mickey Mouse. By last week, it was clear that with Shirley Temple, Father Coughlin, the Dionne Quintuplets and Mrs. Roosevelt, Jerome Herman Dean was definitely one of that small company of super-celebrities whose names, faces and occupations are familiar to every literate U. S. citizen and whose antics, gracious or absurd, become the legend of their time...
...nominee for New York's attorney-generalship, turned down lucrative invitations to join eminent New York City law firms. Reasons: Family life too important to be infringed upon by politics; multiplied income of New York City practice over that in Jamestown (pop. 45,155) would not permit same gracious enjoyment of unostentatious luxuries-would have to live in city or commute, and he hates both; might be expected to work Saturdays, and reserves Saturdays for domestic pleasures; several times the income that keeps a comfortable cabin cruiser on Lake Chautauqua wouldn't maintain a yacht on the Hudson...
...Miss Duke remain undisputed No. i heiress in the U. S. Her behavior as such was appropriate. Father Duke's polish was acquired by friction along the rough road to riches. But Mother Duke was born an aristocrat, Nanaline Holt, of a First Family of Macon, Ga. Gracious, conservative, charming, she became the second wife of Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris' parents prescribed what they called simplicity. Doris ("Dee-Dee") grew up to be a moderately pretty blue-eyed blonde. Her height (5 ft. 8 in.) limited her dancing partners...
André Maurois, like a week-end guest who hopes to be asked again, is unfailingly gracious about England and the English. This half-loaf appreciation of Dickens is sliced thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn...