Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until World War II, "Casa Verdi" in Milan housed 100 pensioners in gracious ease. But Casa Verdi's income suffered when buildings in which some of its capital was invested were bombed in air raids. Moreover, the lira isn't what it used...
...much as Vag was the life of the party, he felt extra gracious it telling the host to stay where he was, that he would answer the doorbell himself. He found no one at the door but the doorbell kept ringing and ringing. Vag studied the situation. He concluded, finally, that it was the alarm clock and he woke up. With his eyes half open, he reached out to the chair beside his bed, shut off the alarm and groped for his calendar of "Things To Do Today" to find out that parties were going...
Fortunately for student waitresses the administration clings to 'gracious living' only to the extent of having one sit-down non-cafeteria style meal a day. Dinners at week day suppers and Sunday lunch are waited on individually, the rest of the time waitresses put food on a serving table and carry away dirty dishes from the side-boards...
...Harvard Club of Boston has perhaps the best clubhouse facilities of any alumni organization in America. Squash courts, game rooms, lounges, restaurants, ladies' lounges and meeting room, and hotel facilities, lavishly staffed, provide a meeting place in gracious surroundings...
...personal bed-making prospect would only become a reality if the College followed the Tech plan completely, but details have yet to be considered. Yet a loss of gracious sleeping appears well out-weighed by arguments in favor of the student porter...