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Word: graciously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today holds the British Cabinet sinecure of Lord President of the Council at $10,000 yearly, is slated to be raised to the peerage soon and retire on a pension of $10,000. Severe eye trouble caused him to strain with visible pain last week as he read a gracious speech void of importance-in the true sense a swan song by a once great man once greatly beloved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Important for Democracy | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...ever gracious Professor and Mrs. Haring preside pleasantly and always cooperatively over the social life of the House, while the list of Associates and Tutors offer a happily gregarious attitude to students who seek their company...

Author: By C. COLMERY Gibson, CHAIRMAN, DUNSTER HOUSE COMMITTEE | Title: Second Article for Freshmen Stresses Dunster's Nearness to Smith, Wellesley | 3/19/1937 | See Source »

...Whether or not the marriage would be performed, as had been predicted, in Rome by Papal Secretary of State Pacelli, who visited at "Inisfada" last autumn (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.), performed it soon would be in a manner befitting the mature companionship of a good and gracious lady and a courtly diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Inisfada & Mrs. Brady | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

With quieter eloquence but no less feeling than Senator George Graham Vest displayed in his famed "Tribute to a Dog," Mrs. Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, rich and gracious wife of Remington Arms Co.'s board chairman, declared last week on receiving the Chappel Foundation Plaque for signal devotion to dogdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Finest Dogs | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...husband left her, shipped as a sailor the night before the San Francisco earthquake. The shock and the quake combined gave Louise brain fever. A friendly floozy took her in, and she recuperated in a bawdy house. Then she married a rich Jew, and settled down to be the gracious lady nature had intended her to be. Grace, left at home in Silver Bow, caught Louise's old beau on the rebound, married him and became the most respectable matron in town. She had her domestic troubles, too, but she managed her husband like the small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1904 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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