Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...
...Paarl, a hotbed of nationalist sentiment, royalty met "General" Hendrik Marsh, whose fascistic Ossewa Brandwag organization's purposes have ranged from sabotaging the British war effort to outlawing Santa Claus as a British imperialist importation.* Said Marsh afterward: "The Royal Family captured us completely by their gracious simplicity. We expected pomp. Now that I've met Their Majesties, I'd personally like to ask them to stay here...
...Most gracious sovereign, leaving England's shore...
...Chile's most gracious resort city the season was in full swing. Well-heeled Chileans and vacationists from foreign countries splashed in the green Pacific surf at Vina del Mar, took the summer sun on its white beaches 90 miles west of Santiago. Racing fans crowded the clubhouse and the rail at the Sporting Club to see Bromazo win the annual derby this week...
...these days is historical drama, and the motion picture producers aren't forgetting it. Brushing aside any facts that might stand in their way the wily movie magnates have made of Dolly Madison something more than "mine gracious hostess" and daring rescuer of the portrait of George Washington. For, ensconced within the charming structure of Ginger Rogers, she is capable of tap-dancing, being psychoanalized and bewitching young men of good family. She does none of these, however, but there is an omnipresent suspicion that she might, at any moment, go into her routine...