Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glowing with loving-kindness Il Duce sped to Gardone Riviera where at the gate of his elaborate villa, egg-headed, effete Hero-Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio awaited, no longer sulky. Poet and Premier hugged each other, and made a gracious courtesy of getting through the gate. Insisted the Poet: "You first. Duce. I am in my own house. It is I who give orders here." Whereupon, 21 guns boomed a salute from the prow of the warship which Poet d'Annunzio had mounted on a cliff. Toward the house the pair moved, the host exclaiming: "I have so much...
What keeps The Distaff Side from slip ping into mawkishness is Sybil Thorndyke who seems to imbue her acting with a extraordinary personal warmth and to make the play a cameo-clear portrait of a fine and gracious woman...
Hostess. There was nothing about the program, opened by the President's wife and closed by the President, to remind the audience of the Herald Tribune's arch-Republicanism. Gracious hostess of the Conference was Helen Rogers Reid, vice president of the Herald Tribune, who said to her guests: "We have chosen for the topic of this conference 'Changing Standards...
Such were the surface qualities, coating innate efficiency, ambition and commonsense, which Helen Rogers of Appleton, Wis. carried out of Barnard College 31 years ago. She wanted to teach, but Elisabeth Mills Reid, handsome, gracious wife of Editor Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, wanted her as social secretary. Wisely she chose Miss Rogers. When President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 sent Whitelaw Reid to the Court of St. James's, Secretary Rogers went along. There she met the Reid's fun-loving Son Ogden, just out of Yale. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, who had a deep affection...
When Ruth Bryan Owen, gracious U. S. Minister to Denmark, expressed a desire to come home by way of Greenland, the Danish Government insisted that she travel as its guest. The Danish Premier saw her off at the boat and the Danish administrator for Greenland escorted her to his territory. Mrs. Owen suggested that perhaps a U. S. Coast Guard boat on ice patrol could take her from Greenland to the U. S. The State Department, knowing full well that the ice patrol ended in August, presented her request to the Treasury. No man to refuse his country...