Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said gracious Miss Roche, elaborating on her February report: "Fifty million Americans are in families receiving less than $1,000 a year. . . . The average cost of private medical care is $76 a person annually. . . . The total [yearly] cost of illness and premature death is $10,000,000,000. We cannot attack successfully with small change a ten-billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication...
...Jenkintown, the Philadelphia suburb near which they live, the Bryans' gracious hospitality is a byword and to both gentry and tenantry alike Mr. Bryan is known as Big Hearted Joe. He hasn't got any St. George in the middle of his name, either. You people have a lot to learn about Joe Bryan...
...Architect Wright has cultivated such a community in embryo. Guests there nearly always feel a distinct sense of translation to a better world. One cause of this is undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman...
Waters sing, numerous varicolored name-bands play, watch dusky, graceful Marva Trotter (Mrs. Joe) Louis and white, gracious Irene Castle McLaughlin model their own clothes. Last week Mesdames Louis and Castle met to discuss plans, pose for pictures...
Next week, as "a gracious link with the tradition of the old service," Owney, having traveled for the first time in 40 years, will sit in state in the lobby of the Commodore Perry Hotel in Toledo, to greet the successors of his longtime friends and protectors...