Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a tour together, they go to a little French coastal town; an intriguing demonstration of the art of gracious living follows. Dinner by candle light (which makes Miss Bergman's white even teeth flash and sparkle) and sailing on azure waters in a speedy little boat (which makes Miss Bergman's silky blonde hair flash and sparkle) are only a few of the things which make Mr. Howard's eyes flash and sparkle. As all good things must, this intermezzo comes to an end and the couple, realizing that they can never be happy with Howard's family waiting...
Pakistan's Governor General Khwaja Nazimuddin and Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan graciously wired congratulations and promoted the Amir to lieutenant general in Pakistan's army. It was the Amir's turn to be gracious. As a climax to his fabulous shindig, he announced the first popular reform in the state's history: a 25-member state assembly. The Amir would pick nine members, leaving 16 to be chosen by a complicated system of indirect election...
From the swimming pool in "B" entry right through to the University's most palatable meals, Adams House offers the upperclassman 24 hours worth of comfortable and gracious living every...
Harvard will dust off another one of those pre-war events that made for the reputation of gracious living in the College community when the Lowell House Opera Society unveils its first production in seven years this evening...
...that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried one, "don't you Americans ever do anything by hand...