Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the banks of the Potomac, Japanese cherry trees were last week bursting into bloom, sign of hot weather soon to come, sign that Congress should soon wind up its lengthy session. Senator Connally of Texas, moved by these harbingers of summer, thought of being gracious: why should not a small delegation of Democratic Congressmen go down to the Union Station to meet the President returning from vacation? Senator Borah, also gracious, asked: Why should not Republicans be included? The cloak rooms buzzed. Someone had a bright idea: Why not invite the whole of Congress? Why not march down with...
...poem. In his overanxiety to avoid monotony Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect. His easy narrative blank verse, with no straining after mighty lines, needs no such purplish patching. Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell." "What's the matter, Ma?" called a voice from the darkness. "Mighty near bust my toe off's what's the matter. Told that boy a dozen times if I told...
...rigid way in which he holds to these high aims. There can, in view of all this, be no doubt that the Colonel has followed the only course he could and that in refusing to join the investigating committee he made a gesture that is as tactful and gracious as it is moral, a gesture befitting an officer and a gentleman...
...chosen was 47-year-old Hiroshi Saito. In Washington his big job was to keep the U. S. at least as friendly toward Japan as toward Russia if and when a second Russo-Japanese War breaks. He, with his gracious wife and two young children, arrived in Manhattan last week on his way to present his credentials to President Roosevelt in Washington...
Dartmouth, which is troubled by none of the scruples that make the life of a Yale athletic director so miserable, has solved her coaching problem to the beaming satisfaction of all except a few disgruntled but gracious Kay-dots. "I have come to the conclusion that football is more than a game," that pillar of the Boston Transcript, Mr. George C. Carens, quotes Dartmouth's President Ernest M. Hopkins as saying in justification of the Big Green's attack on the United States Army. "I think football is a symbol." President Hopkins is right, Football is a symbol...