Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrible New York reporters." there finally came in last week on the Italian liner Conte di Savoia a regal lady who in fact did not want what the rest secretly crave, and who found no difficulty whatever in avoiding it. A granddaughter of British Queen Victoria is gracious ousted Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenie whose loose-lipped, loose-living husband Alfonso XIII never abdicated and stands a chance of being restored in Madrid as King should the White armies win Spain's present civil war (see p. 20). Last week Her Majesty, traveling as "the Duchess of Toledo," arrived...
Brains. As proud as he might be of his University, which after 300 years has no U. S. peer, many a Harvardman last week was prouder of the University's new President. Son of a humble Dorchester photo-engraver. James Bryant Conant by his gracious and wise bearing distinguished himself last week in the midst of a large body of social aristocrats, ably established his membership in the aristocracy of brains. Brains are indeed the main interest of Harvard's 23rd President. Harvard has more money ($128,000,000) than any other university in the world ever...
With a wave of his straw hat, gracious, gangling Director George Harold Edgell, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts stepped into the gondola of a police motor-cycle at Cunard's Pier in East Boston last month and went popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last winter...
Last month in Copenhagen, a newshawk cornered Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland, just before that gracious lady set sail for the U. S. to stump for Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection. Did she not think, he asked, that it would be disagreeable for any husband to be of lower rank than his wife? "I can see no problems," countered William Jennings Bryan's 50-year-old daughter. "The food tastes equally good at both ends of the table...
...defending with gun and pike the extra-territoriality of the Yard against unwarranted intrusion from above. Fortunately Jerome Greene and the Senate kept their heads above water, for the Senate resolution contains no hint of taking over the Harvard reception committee, but, as Mr. Greene pointed out, is a gracious recognition of the Tercentenary celebration...