Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life (No. 3 and No. 4: Heiresses Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton). No. s-to-be can give him none of these things, but moonstruck Rubirosa, aching to marry her "probably within one month," husked that his fiancee, fast-rising Paris Actress Odile (Fabien) Rodin, 19,* is "pretty, intelligent, gracious and good...
...last week, allowed himself only two daily luxuries: a hot bath in the afternoon, a quart of ice cream at night (he shuns bourbon when on campaign duty). Clements' campaign technique: magnolias and corn ("Now I understand why Kentucky is known far and wide for its lovely, gracious ladies. I hope you will not think me forward for speaking to you. I'm Earle Clements...
Adlai wasn't talking much. He was very grateful to Kefauver for his "gracious, spontaneous expression of support." He thought Kefauver was only one among "many qualified candidates for Vice President." It was a long way from an endorsement of anybody-arithmetic or no. In fact, it was something like a friendly wave from the cab as the engineer rolls along the iron without even having to look at his pocket watch to see what time...
...Seattle and Des Moines, and, for seven lively weeks, to Europe. At every stopping place he has increased his reputation as a character, whether by calling Richard Nixon an s.o.b. or by calling a general a squirrel-head (TIME, June 4). He acted as Father of the Bride with gracious dignity, and the entire nation shared his pride and his sadness. He wrote his memoirs and delighted in being called a liar by Douglas MacArthur and Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace and Bernard Baruch and Pat Hurley and Francis Biddle. He also stayed up to his eyeglasses in politics...
Wrote the Times in one of the most moving editorials Manhattan newspaper readers would read in many a day: "We mourn today for those who died, the ones we knew and the ones we did not know. We lament, too, the death of a ship-a gracious ship that now lies with all her cabins and saloons and murals, her spacious decks, her lovely lines, her exquisite and powerful engines, probably forever, in forty fathoms of water...