Word: graciously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...class of 1912, along with William L. Laurence, science editor of the New York Times; Raymond S. Wilkins, an Overseer; and Harry Wolfson, a Harvard professor. They were witness with their fellows to the beginning of a chapter of the College's history and the end of a certain gracious style of education in a gracious, secure world.JOSEPH P. KENNEDY...
...keep few fishes, Who is that rose in that blind house? And all slim, gracious blind planes are coming, They cry badly along a rose, To leap is stuffy, to crawl was tender...
...nine days, he chatted with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ("Why must girls serve in the Israeli army?"), secured the key to Nazareth and a silver-embossed Bible, broke ground for the Frank Sinatra International Friendship Youth House ("I never thought a school would be named for me"), held gracious receptions and swung through nine concerts. By week's end, his voice was scratchy and tired, and he set off for a seven-day cruise to the Isle of Rhodes on a chartered yacht before his next round of appearances in Greece and Italy...
Most highly prized by the tastemakers is the Thonet rocker. A cross between a badminton racquet and a Flexible Flyer, this calligraphic doyen of gracious sitting shows off to great advantage against the stark whiteness of painted bricks or modish raw plaster walls. Pablo Picasso owns one, and so does Hollywood Director Billy Wilder. Original Thonet rockers sell nowadays for between $75 and $185 (depending on state of repair and elegance of design) in Manhattan antiqueries, sold for much more until imports of them from Europe began to flood the U.S. market two years...
...This," said the voice on the telephone, "is Roger Blough. the man you've been reading about." Thus, with a humor rare in him, U.S. Steel's board chairman last week arranged for another appointment with President Kennedy-and he found the President a gracious victor...