Word: gracious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took Queen Victoria herself to show him where to draw the line in his publicity schemes. With no middleman to pave the way, Lipton wrote to the Queen in 1887: "I take the liberty of writing to inquire whether your most gracious Majesty would be pleased to accept of the largest cheese ever made [it was to weigh five tons] as a [Queen's Golden] Jubilee offering." A member of Victoria's household staff promptly replied, in effect, that...
...more than two years, no white Charlestonian had called socially at the gracious, grey stucco home of Federal Judge J. Waties Waring and his Yankee wife. First, the judge's lifelong friends in Charleston's proud and starchy society had cut him cold for divorcing one of their own to marry a twice-divorced woman from Connecticut. Then the rest of white Charleston had drawn itself aloof when he ruled that Negroes were entitled to vote in South Carolina's primary elections (TIME, Aug. 23, 1948). Over the months there were loud whispers that the Warings were...
Thus bluntly defined was the problem of what the West might do for Asia. What could Asia do for the West? Ceylon made a gracious start. Buddhist priests at Kandy, learning that Bevin has a heart ailment, invited him to view the cherished relic of Buddha's tooth, which they say has curative powers. Usually the tooth is taken from its jeweled cases and exposed only once in seven years...