Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season approaches when in accordance with a long established and respected custom, a day is set apart to give thanks to Almighty God for the manifold blessings which His gracious and benevolent providence has bestowed upon us as a nation and as individuals...
...Leaving your beautiful land and your friendly citizens, I bring to France memories of the kindest greeting I ever had, of the most gracious, kindly and generous treatment on every hand...
...name last week. When fully and correctly written and spelled, it is said to be "Amir Muhammad-ibn Abd-el-Karim." Translated, 'Amir" is the Arabic equivalent for "Prince"; "Muhammad," of course, the Arabic spelling of "Mohammed" ; "ibn," "son"; "Abd," "of the servant"; and "ul-Karim," "of the Gracious One" (i. e. God). The whole name may thus be translated "Prince Mohammed, Son of the Servant of God"; "Mohammad" being the Prince's "given name," and "Servant of God" his "family name...
...news would have hooted through Florence like a high wind, whipping the scarlet soutanes of cardinals up around their knees, blowing fear into the faces of swart gonfaloniers, and scuttling down lonely corridors to pry under the doors of gay and gracious gentlewomen ? whisk! up the coverlet, into the closet and out of the window...
...ditty .entitled, Be My Charm Mama, and I'll Be Your Soda Pop. But alas! there are no such songs. For this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth...