Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a British workman bothers to find out who is Minister of Labor he discovers handsome, rich and epigrammatic young Major Oliver Stanley, second son of the huge-paunched, sporting 17th Earl of Derby. Major Stanley's poised and gracious mother is Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty the Queen. His beauteous wife is Maureen, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, social backers and promoters of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. To a Laborite the mere fact that aristocratic Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham...
Hereafter in Kentucky no more barbers will be elevated to the rank and dignity of Colonel. That is the decision of Governor Ruby Lafoon on discovering that he had unwittingly made a New York barber a Kentucky Colonel in gracious but indiscreet response to the request of a New York friend...
...Haven Wednesday evening, that originated as a birthday celebration for the college and developed into a demonstration of respect for its departing master, Alan Valentine, just appointed President of Rochester University. A social union was initiated between those two units last year when Pierson College played the gracious host to Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House...
...atmosphere fairly oozed with friendly accord. There were conferences, teas, trips through the 4,500,000 fingerprint library at the Department of Justice, visits to its criminal laboratories. No small part in helping effect an entente cordiale was performed by Hostess Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, a lively brunette with gracious ways and a glib...
Yugoslavia. "A second Pompeii!" was the exultant cry that went up in Belgrade from government archeologists who have been excavating the forgotten city of Stobi, founded by the Greeks 2,400 years ago, a beehive of art and learning under the Roman Empire. Already visible are gracious courtyards, marble fountains and swimming pools, a stone amphitheatre for gladiatorial contests seating 10,000, vivid blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes...