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Word: graciously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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People were driving down Broadway in claret-colored broughams, ladies wore tiaras and insisted on heavy white gloves when in Box No. 8, the fourth from the stage on the right, Lizzie P. Bliss began entertaining on Monday nights at the Opera. Lizzie Bliss was a gracious hostess. In Washington she entertained for her father when President McKinley persuaded him to leave his wholesale dry-goods business long enough to serve a term as Secretary of the Interior. Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr. was part owner of the Diamond Horseshoe Box but New York has known him more for his charitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan's Appeal | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Vivacious, sagacious, Describe a publisher's daughter, True blue and gracious Oh, bless the Gods who wrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death in Denver | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

Amid pandemonium a Socialist motion to lower the Imperial flag was howled down. Disgusted Socialist and Communist Deputies marched out in a body. Later that day 1,000 Monarchists met in Berlin to hear & cheer "a message from our most gracious Kaiser and King," Wilhelm II, who was represented by his fifth son, Prince Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Negro with Parasol | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...will. Ordinarily the delay is of no consequence; but so sweeping an indictment of an administration should not remain for four months officially unrecognized by the President. As Walter Lippman has suggested, cooperation in matters of policy between the defeated incumbent and the victor would be not merely a gracious acknowledgment but a necessary recognition of public opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LAMPS FOR OLD | 11/9/1932 | See Source »

...carnage was holding a grand reception in Versailles and the splendour of a continent had gathered in homage. Talleyrand was there, with the ironical manner which caused the Emperor to assault him once in Fontainebleau, and the ambassador of Alexander of Russia. To him the Emperor was particularly gracious, for he was planning to betray his master. A nuncio from the Vatican moved remotely amid the revelry. In an ante-chamber the representative of his Brittannic Majesty cooled his heels neglected, anticipating a dozen Waterloos in revenge. A glittering pomp surrounded the little corporal, and the revelers of the Lupercal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/22/1932 | See Source »

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