Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easy made its mild zoo of feckless people easily believable. Director Miele kept bouncing her characters into spontaneity, accented their brash selfishness, their reluctant and shamefaced fondness for one another. Best performances: David Morris as the sulky and likeable son; Helen Lowell making of the harried mother a singularly gracious and human characterization...
...This good lady, on her appearance, made me feel wholly at ease. She was a charming and gracious soul; and told me just what the Sisters of the Blessed Harmony had in mind. 'Harmonians,' she explained, 'are of all denominations. No; not just Anglicans, though we have some of them. ... I myself am a Universalist, which, you see, keeps the peace in the community between the Presbyterian sisters from Massachusetts, the Congregationalists from Connecticut, and the Baptists from Rhode Island. But we do agree on the tea; and that means so much to poor travelers...
...gives time to civic enterprises like the Community Chest and the Genesee Hospital. A lean, bronzed outdoor man, able tennist at 48, Harper Sibley is a member of the potent National Council of the Episcopal Church and a friend of Rochester's Bishop David Lincoln Ferris. His slim, gracious wife, Georgiana Farr Sibley, mother of six, is a busy clubwoman and good speaker, member of the National Council's Woman's Auxiliary. In the big brick Sibley home in Rochester are held many parties, many gatherings of club and church people...
...Ervie Ravenbyrne ("Chaperon") of Hearst's American, who weekends with the elect. She and "Dowager" (Helen Young) of Hearst's Herald & Examiner are assisted by able socialite reporters. Martha Granger Blair and Betty Field. New Orleans, The Times-Picayune's Anna Bolton Ellis, grey and gracious, has held her job for 32 years, is nearly as potent in her sphere as Cincinnati's Devereux in hers, assigning party dates and terrifying climbers. From January through Mardi Gras, New Orleans social-writers lead a hectic life, covering the highly organized festivities of their city. Seattle...
...time he reached New York harbor with his daughter Ishbel, Prime Minister MacDonald had regained much of his philosophy. Newsmen asked if he were irked. Replied he: "Oh, gracious, no! It only brings into higher light the stress of the world." When he spied a ferryboat named President Roosevelt, he cried: "There, that's a good omen...