Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City College is intellectually superior to other colleges in the country but it is not fortunate in personality and social prestige. Medical schools look to see who would be the most gracious practitioner of medicine. They look for affability and appearance...
...grace and distinction of the lady who broke the bottle over the bow of the racing yacht in Nixon's boatyard on Staten Island. I feel sure that my memory is not at fault because I have always looked upon Edith Carow Roosevelt as the most gracious and distinguished woman who has presided over the White House in Washington during my 72 years. During the winter of Prince Henry's visit to the U. S. I lived at the Metropolitan Club and I think I missed no important phase of the rather interesting episode when Kaiser...
...reception in the opera house was as tumultuous and unceasing as the Queen's acceptance of it was gracious. She expressed her gratitude the next morning by inviting the prima donna to her room in the Palatin Hotel and presenting her with a brooch bejeweled bearing the remarkable likeness of "Old Testament-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie, and by asking the whole company to present their operas in Abyssinia, plans for which are now complete...
...King's most excellent majesty and most gracious sovereign, we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects in the Legislative Council and Assembly of Newfoundland, humbly approach Your Majesty praying that whereas in the present emergency Your Majesty's island of Newfoundland is unable from its own resources to defray the interest charge son the public debt and whereas the Royal Commission appointed by Your Majesty's warrant bearing the date of the seventeenth day of February 1933 to examine into the future of Newfoundland, has recommended that for the time being and until such...
...altered by a unanimous decision, and that France and all whom it may concern will certainly vote against any alteration; and on top of these facts he announces that unless "something is done," Italy will walk out on the party. In short, he is giving the paralytic the gracious choice of either doing a hundred-yard dash in ten seconds or suffering a severe amputation...