Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia's fast, rangy, young (24) Victor Seixas (rhymes with gracious), a University of North Carolina senior with a cannonball service and a neat drop shot, upset top-seeded Schroeder in the quarterfinals, 2-6, 6-4, 8-6, 6-4, before losing in the semifinals. It was the second tournament defeat in a row for Schroeder, who just wasn't in shape...
...certainly use a little of that. Chairman Sloan's reply was respectful as could be: he wanted to have another lunch with Billy "so that we may have the further benefit of your thinking based on your long and successful experience in the theatrical field." Snapped Billy: ". . . A gracious letter, although not exactly an answer...
Please accept my hearty thanks for the kindly and gracious citation in your "Goodbye, Messrs. Chips" [TIME, June 21]. Such a citation is worth waiting 70 years for. I have much the same feeling as that expressed by Mark Twain after receiving the Doctor of Letters honorary degree from Oxford University: "I feel as if I had received an official emancipation from ignorance and vice . . ." After reading TIME's gay précis, I confess that I felt no sense of departure, but rather the distinct conviction of arrival...
After the match, the embarrassed chairman of the Nottinghamshire Club apologized to Don Bradman, Australia's cricketing Babe Ruth, for the crowd's behavior. Bradman could afford to be gracious. His bully boys, with the help of bumpers, were leading England (which hadn't had its second innings yet) by 478 runs...
...some important respects The Search is a disappointment. Producer Wechsler and Director Fred Zinneman are not, at best, very vigorous or inventive moviemakers. Their subject, enormous almost beyond tragic reach, is frequently reduced to the scale of gracious sentimentality. The moral complexities of the subject are dealt with so shyly that one can scarcely be sure they are consciously dealt with at all.-Despite its lack of real-life vitality (as in Shoeshine The Search may be a popular success. If so, it will help Hollywood find the courage for more such ventures. A studio willing to go the whole...