Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indictment against national, political shortsightedness. Eventually the creditor nations will have to agree to at least a partial cancellation of war debts. The United States could have done much for the promotion of international good feeling by offering partial cancellation a year ago or earlier. The chance for a gracious gesture has gone. Anything that is done now will be done under compulsion, only because there is nothing else left to do. The facts will beat the pride and prejudice of the Senate, but Senatorial obstinacy will apparently be maintained to the last, at the cost of international good will...
What Japan would say should Patrick Jay Hurley write such an article for the Army & Navy Journal, U. S. citizens could only guess. Uchida. Count Yasuya Uchida, the man who kept all this boiling by his historic "fissiparous" speech in the Diet, is a gracious, grey-haired gentleman of 67 who dresses exquisitely, is very fond of a cup of hot sake (rice whisky), has a fine collection of Chinese silk paintings and likes to sing old Japanese utai (folk ballads) in the garden of his home with a group of cronies. Only to patriotic Chinese do his black-socked...
...more years than she likes to remember, the undisputed leader of the Anglo-U. S. set in Italy has been gracious grey-haired Principessa San Faustino, formerly Jane Campbell of New York. The Princess Jane has a palace in Rome and one in Venice. She used to give tremendous dinners, balls and routs that were faithfully reported by the smartcharts of four countries. Knowing visitors to Italy placed an introduction to Princess Jane beside a visit to the Catacombs and a gondola ride by moonlight as items not to be missed...
...white-haired dame with the patrician profile and shallow-crowned velvet hat "with feather fantasy caught under the nice brim ... for the 40's or 50's or 60's" was unmistakably Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, gracious, able editrix-in-chief of the three Vogues published in Manhattan, London, Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch...
...appearance he is short, well-built. He and Secretary of the Treasury Mills are about of a size. His clothes are neat but distinctive. His hair is thinning on top. He carries his head tilted to one side. His public manners are easy, gracious. He makes a good forceful speech, never too long. He smokes cigarets. No blind partisan, he is respected by Republicans and Democrats alike lor his intelligence, his parliamentary fairness, his industry. Outside Congress: In Washington he lives modestly at The Highlands Apartment, also has a home at Americus. He is a relatively poor man, with little...