Historical clue formulations

• Gracefully send away — 2021-01-28
• Gently show the door — 2017-01-22
• Tactfully remove from a job — 2009-10-19
• Ax politely — 1999-01-31
• Depose gradually and politely — 1997-04-21
• Persuade to leave — 1995-02-18