Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smile of quiet rapture. Above her decolletage, as bare as a lie and as bold as fashion, sparkled a small cascade of diamonds-or what looked like diamonds. Her slender, black-gloved hand gripped a black cigarette holder from which, now & again, she flicked a trace of ash with gracious disdain. A man's voice cooed...
Just about everything was the way Frank Boykin wanted it-lovable and liquid. The Vice President of the U.S., his wit gracious and his stories mellow, was master of ceremonies. Republicans and Democrats got up to tell what a fine fellow easygoing Sam Rayburn is, which came easy, for most of them think he is. Sixty-four-year-old Frank Boykin, a steam-engine of a man with a 50-inch chest, was somewhat awed by what he had wrought. "Here we have the representatives of all the good people of the world," said he. "I have counted...
Mickey also became something of a leading citizen. He took up gracious living. He acquired an ample wardrobe, changed clothes several times a day, washed his hands several times an hour. The opening of his Sunset Strip haberdashery (pastel shirts and hand-painted ties featured) was graced by George
...productive and gracious economy of Hawaii was paralyzed last week; its territorial government was powerless to act. Most of Hawaii's 540,000 residents were seething inside like old Kilauea, the volcano with the pit of eternal fire. It was the eighth week of a strike by 2,000 members of Harry Bridges' Redlined International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, C.I.O...
Bing had been met that March night by Manager Johnson and a little knot of gracious but sharp-eyed Met directors. They apparently liked what they saw: a tall, fastidious man of 47, with charm and a manner of quick, cool decision. At lunch next day, they raised a question: would he consider leaving Glyndebourne and his great Edinburgh Festival (TIME, Sept. 20) to succeed retiring General Manager Johnson in 1950? Rudolf Bing considered it carefully. The Met's directors liked him even better for the way he candidly answered their questions about his policies and prescriptions for curing...