Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marie was kissing Marie; mother was embracing daughter; Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania was bidding a gracious, willowy farewell at Bucharest, last week, to Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, her recent house guest (TIME, March...
...intelligent humility of this utterance is in keeping with the character of Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed. Gracious, energetic, perhaps a trifle over-imbued with the onward-and-upward-and-quickly attitude of his University, Dr. Goodspeed is a type infinitely removed from the majestically conservative Roman Catholic, Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. They have, however, a common quality. To both belongs the same shining desire; both share the same endless and splendid crusade to discover, scuffled somewhere in a dusty place, God's word in a golden grail...
...Prime Ministry in 1880 he struck definitely the tone of their correspondence thus: "Lord Beaconsfield, no longer in the sunset but in the twilight of existence, must encounter a life of anxiety and toil; but this, too, has its romance, when he remembers that he labors for the most gracious of beings...
...Adair of Richmond, Va., first classroom teacher ever to be elected president of N. E. A., made backward delegates feel at home, bustled up to greet Harvard's Lowell, attended teas, smiled maternally for petulant photographers, said little for publication, was awarded an especially created degree, G. L. (Gracious Lady), by the Massachusetts Teachers' Federation. A mathematics master, Harry C. Barber of Philips-Exeter Academy, was elected to succeed Miss Adair as president at the next convention...
...finishing touches to a mechanism almost complete. The fact remains that they gave final impetus to what is now one of the greatest of modern industries. It is equally true that there is honor enough for all, and for the institute to be generous and the inventor to be gracious would bring to both the greater glory...