Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week newshawks were allowed to see him as he lay in striped pajamas on his sickbed. Hollow-eyed and pale, Ossietzky knew that if he got himself imprisoned again, it would be his death. He gave a buttery account of the gracious, paternal fashion in which the Government had looked after...
...where she had been training for the flight: "It is not a stunt flight, and I don't agree with your Commerce Department ruling. They are very far behind the times. . . . The ruling is as good as saying that flying is not safe." Minister Cot managed to remain gracious, denied that he would try to arrange a race to Paris from Buenos Aires or Canada...
Last week American's Professor Stowell, a gracious, greying cosmopolite who has lived and studied in Russia, Berlin and Paris, and has more friends in Washington's embassies and legations than most State Department officials, was thanking his friends for their help with an extraordinary scheme: to bring one student from each of the 54 countries represented diplomatically in Washington to study a year in the U. S. Christened the Hall of Nations, and with headquarters at American University where most of the students will enroll, Professor Stowell's project already has on its advisory board...
...counterpart but offers a moral which in a U. S. script would strike the Hays organization dumb with horror. In the first place, Kimiko fails to negotiate the reconciliation. In the second, the reason for her failure is that the geisha proves to be a charming and gracious lady with whom her father finds life eminently satisfactory. Faced with this situation, Kimiko makes the best of it. She invites Shunsaku to her wedding, then leaves him to his own devices...
...spaciousness Rome is in a class by itself; for Naples there is always the bay, Vesuvius and donkey carts; and for the most thrilling and picturesque drive in the world there's the Amalfi Drive. For more of antiquity there's Pompei; and for two of the most gracious of ancient temples certainly everybody goes to Paestum. And then there's Capri, where they don't know the "Isle of Capri"; and there's the Blue Grotto . . but who doesn't love Italy for the things to see and to let the imagination play over...