Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...charity toward others' faults seems to have been as effortless as breathing: "God has been very gracious to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards; if I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person...
...gracious Charleston, the still midsummer air was broken by the sound of two Southern gentlemen campaigning. Just before South Carolina's Democratic primary, 4,000 voters had crowded into a ball park to boo or cheer the two voices bursting out of the loudspeakers...
...emphatic that there will be no more books from her pen. Says she: "Most people write too many things." Author Kelly has no need to write another work; her first, though less than a great biography, is no less than a very good one, done in a handsome, gracious style, quite to the queen's taste...
...with specially bound copies of Proverbial Philosophy. The bard got a private audience and passed the books direct from his own common paws into the royal hands. He was told it was an honor that had been done to only one other British writer-George III was once as gracious to Dr. Samuel Johnson. Americans were impressed with Tupper too. When he visited the U.S. in 1851, he dined with President Millard Fillmore at the White House and was introduced to members of the cabinet...
...American Expatriate Josephine Baker, song and dance artist, called for amateur singers and dancers from the audience to compete for a special prize-a chocolate egg. Among those who volunteered was Federico Covella, 25. "I know only Giovinezza and can sing nothing else," he informed Miss Baker. Carefree and gracious, the mistress of ceremonies waved him on, bid the orchestra to strike up the tune...