Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does want to talk a bit about Texas. It is only upon rare occasions that a team from the far flung regions of the west comes here to Cambridge. Harvard today has one of her rare opportunities to play the gracious host to an institution that has travelled three thousand miles to play a fine, hard game. It has also the chance to learn what manner of men come out of the west...
Prince Svasti, gracious, Westernized father of Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, went to a performance of The Green Pastures in Manhattan. Entering the theatre he spied a poor man and his wife who held a small baby in her arms. Prince Svasti stopped to admire the child, offered the man a roll of money. At first the man refused. Then he broke down, told the Prince that he had three more children, that he was jobless, about to be evicted from his home. When a crowd gathered, Prince Svasti took up a collection, persuaded the indigent pair to accept...
...Kaufman having mercilessly lampooned most of the usual elements of their craft, it is up to Messrs. Dietz & Schwartz to turn out something well out of the ordinary. They do. In rapid succession, lively, gracious Fred & Adele Astaire (Funny Face, Smiles) entertain with dancing to an accordion played by Brother Fred; a tasteful tune, "High & Low," is introduced; Frank Morgan (Topaze) and straight-faced Helen Broderick (Fifty Million Frenchmen) engage in a long argument while waiting for a taxi; Dancer Tilly Losch (This Year Of Grace) exhibits herself sinuously in a tasteful routine. Included in the tomfoolery is that extremely...
...went to California. By the time his daughter Elisabeth was born in New York nine years later, he and John W. Mackay had amassed the kind of money that starts timocratic dynasties. With a background of intelligence and wealth, Elisabeth Mills was destined to become the financial and gracious helpmate of a great diplomat and an eminent public benefactress. The year 1881 marked the first milestone for both elements in her conspicuous career. Aged 23, she married Whitelaw Reid, potent editor of the New York Tribune. The same year she helped organize the New York Chapter of the American...
...Department of State of the United States of America issued, with His Majesty's gracious approval, a pamphlet entitled...