Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among us, amiably pretending to be a Tyrolese and speaking our peculiar dialect, just as he used to perform this same gracious gesture among all of his subject peoples. The Habsburgs left us more or less to ourselves; now the Allies have turned us over to the house of Savoy, although every municipal council in our whole territory requested the Peace conference not to annex us to Italy. As to our race...
...Quiet ladies took the ejaculation seriously, echoing it with a "Good gracious" or a "Mercy me." Metropolitan wags relapsed into the facetious falsetto with which they retail remarks that appeal to them as effeminate. Honest men stared, read under the headline an article which informed them that "Oh, Dear" was the actual name of the Prince's horse. These men had a curt criticism of the headline writer's awkward and flippant line. "Stupid," they said...
...universities, through whom the tradition of leadership as well as the torch of knowledge are passed from generation to generation of American youth. It is difficult to imagine anything more important than that such men should acquire the liberality of mind and personal qualities that are bred by gracious human intercourse at the same time that they acquire the learning that is bred by the intense application to their studies...
...With gracious feminine evasiveness she parried all efforts of the correspondents to draw her out into some statement that could be revamped as "copy." With incisive, feminine neatness she ordered her trunks unpacked, and though no prying reporter saw, her U. S. friends well knew that there came forth: a Paris wardrobe (all in petite sizes) impeccable to the finest pinpoint; skins of wild Colorado animals (to establish beyond peradventure her origin); riding habits (she is an expert horsewoman) ; perhaps a ravishing orange skin-tight swimming costume (it was seen many a time last summer in the tank...
Queen Elizabeth, slim, valiant helpmate of slim, valiant King Albert I of the Belgians, received last week a sprig of 19 roses, roses that smelled sweetly of balsam and musk, the gracious appreciation of a noble woman held in high esteem by His Holiness Pius XI, who was born Achille Ratti, a papal gift for her silver wedding anniversary. The roses were artificial and constituted the famed Golden Rose...