Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...meeting with Hugh Walpole, the English novelist, when he arrived in this country, to have been ungentlemanly in the extreme. . . . Really nice people instinctively steer clear of you." Of "Texas Jim" Baker, inmate, self-confessed mur derer of nine, commented Fisticuffer Tunney: "A strange person, yet apparently charming and gracious. ... I think the place is most delightfully cared for, especially the way those cots are made up. They're so neat...
...director of Special Inquiries and Reports in the Education Department of England and Wales, he disseminated sheafs of data on educational goings-on in Germany, England, France, Belgium, the U. S., he became in later years President of the Calcutta University Commission (1917-19). For this work a Gracious Sovereign was pleased to knight him. Sir Michael Sadler is now Master of University College. Oxford, where he likes to show students his collection of French and English paintings...
...consolatory letter signed "Member Student Council" instead of the heart warming and personal "President" or "Secretary"? And the future Junior Class presidents have a now duty now, the annual announcement that their class will follow precedent and not have a Junior Prom. After all, the class officers are gracious adornments, symbols perhaps of an outworn tradition, but nevertheless, the front pages of the Senior Album...
Clemenceau, a few short weeks before Death came to him (TIME, Dec. 2), wrote the Earl's most adequate epitaph, recalled that at the Peace Conference "Mr. Arthur Balfour [was] the most cultured, the most gracious, the most courteous of adamantine...
Moffat Johnston, as the Count de Bardas, a villain who was nefarious with all Victorian thoroughness, played, his part well. He was an admirable snake in the grass with a most gracious smile for his puppets and a devastating frown for his enemies. In the midst of prodigious excitement and complication he seemed to keep a very clear head and came within an ace of being the victor. The comedy element in the guise of Sieur de Beringhen, Gordon Hart, was effective in spite of the fact that his elongated person did not particularly suggest a gourmand. Ernest Rowan...