Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told me that the Premier was host to all the delegates, not only for their accommodation and meals, but for the special train itself which bore them from Quebec to Ottawa. Perhaps this is the first time Canada has ever had a Prime Minister who could afford such a gracious gesture...
...Aunts Adelaide and Emily, small Compton Mackenzie first came in 1887, Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year. That date he remembers less because of public celebrations than because of The Street's ancient crossing sweeper who one day startled the neighborhood by suddenly shouting, "God save our gracious Queen," and forthwith standing. perched on a pile of gutter sweepings, on his head. He was not the only topsy-turvy thing about The Street. Its houses were all on one side and all their numbers, from 1 to 25, were odd. This gave Mr. Lockett, the grandiose Dickensian organist, opportunity...
Last autumn Conductor Littau cleared himself by announcing that he and Beatrice Belkin had been married. Last week Beatrice Belkin refused several engagements in the East and, instead, soloed with what she now calls her hometown orchestra. This gracious attitude merited, and got, a gracious reception. Beatrice Belkin never roused the welkin; her voice is shrill, rather thin. But the Omaha audience packed into Joslyn Art Memorial Auditorium called her back time & again. Omaha's critics fell in line with the public. The city has had to struggle to maintain its orchestra. The Press never voices any criticism which...
...novel myself which has been described as 'having a respect for the decencies'-presumably because that is so unusual a thing." Books written by Author-Publisher Lord Gorell include: Babes in the African Wood; Rosamund; Plush; Gauntlet (1931). To the Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince George is," declared a St. James's Palace spokesman recently, "the artist of the Royal Family. He plays...
Sued. Max Bilgray, cabaret keeper of Colon, Panama; by David Hutton; for $1,000,000. Charge: defamation of the character of his wife, Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, famed evangelist. In honor of Mrs. Hutton's recent visit to his cabaret under the alias "Betty Adams," gracious Barkeep Bilgray devised a cocktail, published its formula, named it "Halleluiah...