Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen (Mady Christians). Only from the ghost, who--in spite of the effective lighting--falls between abstract ghostliness and the human wisdom and tenderness which Shakespeare intended, could more be asked. All in all, Maurice Evans' "Hamlet" is so good that, unanimously, the opening night audience agreed with his gracious acknowledgment of their prolonged applause: "I like to think that the author, were he here, would have enjoyed our play as much as you have done...
...wide crusade for less fortunate Jews, or because his friend Felix Frankfurter was at last at hand to carry on his judicial tradition in the Court, Louis Brandeis did not say. When his letter was released later in the afternoon, he refused to discuss it. Franklin Roosevelt wrote a gracious reply: "One must perforce accept the inevitable. . . . There is nothing I can do but to accede...
...death of the Pope last week caused a lull in international war drummings, celebrations, diplomatic and social functions. Italy stopped its violent newspaper campaign against the European democracies for a whole three days, renewed it early this week with new vigor. Gracious comment on Pius' death in German newspapers was that he was a "political" Pope and the next one should...
...rigid attention, he drinks a birthday toast to his old Warlord and ex-Kaiser. Last week Adolf Hitler brushed this sentimentality aside, forbade his officers to toast the old Kaiser, 80 this week, ordered them to leave all restaurants and other public places where such gestures were made. Gracious exception was made for officers who belong to the Hohenzollern family. They may drink to the health of their abdicated kinsman at Doom...
...manage employment agencies tend to become critical about jobs. Naturally choosy is greyish, gracious little Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, who ran a one-man, unofficial, unpaid employment agency for legal talent for 25 years before it found its biggest client in the New Deal. In 1932 he turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat...