Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food comes from the central kitchen, with all that that implies, but the weekly teas at the Master's and the convenient Eliot Grill preserve some vestiges of gracious living.House residents use the Eliot Grill until 12 midnight six nights a week and save themselves a trip to the Square, Purchases are made with coupone the cost of which is added to the term bill...
Florence and Macon Hammond--on such gracious people depends the Harvard house system...
...said that "this gracious old gentleman may be entirely innocent of formal guilt, but he remains a gullible wool-gatherer." The clergyman also referred to Mather as "naive," and claimed that a man is known "by the folks with whom he travels...
Like most legends, Burns's is fact-resistant, but responsible scholars try to retouch it occasionally. Cornell University's David Daiches (rhymes with gracious) is the latest to try, and does one of the best jobs. Critic Daiches (Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson) scans the poet's lines more closely than his life. Even so, he manages to clear away enough romantic rubble to expose a Burns who could say: "Even in the hour of social mirth, my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner." Burns came by his melancholy...
...This is Mrs. Roosevelt's gracious way of saying," said the World-Telly, "that while 'certain things' may be readily understood by the British and U.N. circles, Congress and the American people are unfortunately a little too dumb to grasp them...