Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last my turn came. As I curtsied I could see the King's kind face and the gracious smile of the Queen. I was much too awed by their extreme royal dignity and presence to feel at all nervous...
...when turned to a parody of the past, rekindle its most significant moments. Each of Ann Fields guests experiences a return in time to whatever instant of inadequacy, ecstasy, awakening or fear has been controlling a present in which death is the only feasible probability. Influenced by airs less gracious than Prospero's-airs which Stephen Field describes, in loose poetry, as blowing from alien estates in time across those in which men live-each character imagines the eccentric scientist as a salient figure from the past. To Pat Farley he is the father of a girl...
...meeting with Hugh Walpole, the English novelist, when he arrived in this country, to have been ungentlemanly in the extreme. . . . Really nice people instinctively steer clear of you." Of "Texas Jim" Baker, inmate, self-confessed mur derer of nine, commented Fisticuffer Tunney: "A strange person, yet apparently charming and gracious. ... I think the place is most delightfully cared for, especially the way those cots are made up. They're so neat...
...director of Special Inquiries and Reports in the Education Department of England and Wales, he disseminated sheafs of data on educational goings-on in Germany, England, France, Belgium, the U. S., he became in later years President of the Calcutta University Commission (1917-19). For this work a Gracious Sovereign was pleased to knight him. Sir Michael Sadler is now Master of University College. Oxford, where he likes to show students his collection of French and English paintings...
...consolatory letter signed "Member Student Council" instead of the heart warming and personal "President" or "Secretary"? And the future Junior Class presidents have a now duty now, the annual announcement that their class will follow precedent and not have a Junior Prom. After all, the class officers are gracious adornments, symbols perhaps of an outworn tradition, but nevertheless, the front pages of the Senior Album...