Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With candor, real or assumed, Hitler said of Hindenburg: "After many battles he finally granted me his gracious friendship and thus founded a relationship which made me happy and was of the greatest help to the nation...
Your very gracious reference to me in TIME [June 4] . leads me to make one correction concerning the list of 50 [leading! men named by Roger Babson and not by J. W. Gerard. It was printed in the American Magazine for March...
Last week President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress reminding it of the old mace and the new tablet and making the following suggestion: "It would be a gracious act for the U. S. to return this historic mace to Canada at the time of the unveiling of the tablet. The mace is a token of representative government established at York nearly a century and a half ago. . . . Since the agreement of 1817 the two countries have by common accord maintained no hostile armaments on either side of their boundary; and every passing year cements the peace and friendship...
Have you ever heard of the organization known as the "D. A. V's?" This, Mr. Greene, is the body known as The Disabled American Veterans of the World War, which for the greater part is made up of men who really deserve any compensation that a gracious government might bestow on them. Of course, in that group, also, one can find veterans who are not deserving, or even in need of, compensation of any nature...
...Civil War, he was born at West Point 71 years ago and schooled at Washington's famed old Emerson Institute and at Yale. In 1885 he went to Paris as a bright young engineer with La Societé Hotchkiss & Cie and has lived there ever since. His gracious wife Margaret was one of the Cox sisters of old Georgetown; Larry Benet married her after he returned as an ensign from the Spanish-American War. Best known of his family are his nephews Poets William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet. He lives in a beautiful apartment on Avenue de Camo...