Glenn Bernbaum at Mortimer's on the Upper East Side fit the bill as well, a Solomon of his mere 19 tables and a gracious host at that restaurant for more than two decades until his death in 1998.
Other people should go before you, and it's really not so important – you'll get your turn anyway, and you'll be more gracious for it.
Sure, it won't be pleasant, but you'll be all the more gracious for giving the people around you the respect they deserve by admitting your mistakes and apologizing for them.
For more than 30 years Gracious Home has helped the Upper East Side remain, well, gracious, outfitting apartments in the wealthiest swath of Manhattan with everything from fireplace andirons to cotton eyelet dust ruffles, dripless candles to picture frames.
Edith was a dear friend and gracious and enthusiastic supporter of our organization and its programs for more than four decades.
It's harder to think of a more gracious or more deserving recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics than Peter Higgs.
For more than 50 years, India has been a sometimes gracious, sometimes uneasy and occasionally hostile host to tens of thousands of Tibetans who fled their homeland and settled here after claiming religious and political persecution by the Chinese government.
For more than 40 years, we enjoyed our lovely friend, Dorothy Dubin, a gracious, interesting, amusing, warm and caring woman.
But this year the auditorium has reopened for more flexible use; it mixes a stark, black-box functionality with gracious but odd reminders of the city's architectural past (like the bannistered walkway suspended from the ceiling).
