Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cultured, well-to-do Wang family of Peiping named their daughter Ta-jun ("All Gracious"). When, aged 11 and just out of elementary school, the child was found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang...
...master of thumping anthems rather than gracious melody. Composer Romberg has nevertheless managed to do well without a singing chorus in this show, has written for May Wine a charming little waltz called Something in the Air of May and an appealing fox trot, Once Around the Clock, which audiences leave the theatre trying to recall...
Childless and divorced, George II, protege of British George V, was reported to have in mind seating beside himself on the Throne of Greece his sister Helen, the gracious royal female for whom King George & Queen Mary have most sympathy. The language in which George V invariably refers to how beauteous Helen was treated by her buck-toothed consort King Carol II of Rumania is salty with sea oaths (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934). Helen although no longer Queen of Rumania, carries officially the style "Her Majesty." The legal nature of her relation to King Carol II is so anomalous that...
...French Revolution had already passed through its stages of exaltation, flowery speeches and grandiose proposals, when in the hot summer of 1793, Charlotte de Corday sat in a dim house in Caen, embroidering on a piece of silk the question: "Shall I, shall I not?" A cool, gracious, studious maiden of 24, she was asking herself if she should assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, President of the Jacobins, diseased, crippled, doomed fanatic who called himself "the rage of the people." The mood of ecstasy that Charlotte de Corday, as a follower of Rousseau, had experienced when the Declaration of the Rights...
...triumphant return to the local boards in the Friday opening of "Post Road", the Wilbur Steele-Norma Mitchell comic mystery which enjoyed a seven months New York run last season. First night attention centered largely on Miss Young's performance which was invested with a good amount of her gracious charm and gentle humor...