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...Dewey; tributes from little people, many of them signed only "A Friend." In a London pub he had visited in 1941, his photograph was draped with crepe; one of the "regulars" drank a toast to him: "We're sorry he's gone. He was a proper gent-very easy to mix with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: With All My Heart . . . | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...goes into detail about the family of the President's mother), ". . . is one of my favorite books and every time I dip into it I am tantalized by the author's iron reticence concerning the sources of the Delano fortune. Now I think I understand. The old gent, Warren Delano, President Roosevelt's grandfather, was an old-time opium smuggler, a member of something rather like our own Rum Row which operated off the New York coast a few years ago. The ships ran the stuff from India into China, whose emperor had seen the ravages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dope on the Delanos | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...last cont, he's a Harvard gent...

Author: By Ens. GUY Osborn, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

...Tuscon-indoctrinated gent who didn't know what "meet "or" meant the other day in S.C.A.? And did you hear about Douglas Kelly saying "K, like is Kansas" over the telephone, in South Matthews t'other night? It just ain't Navy, Kelly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 11/23/1943 | See Source »

Something you shouldn't be disappointed in is the 7-43 year book, the name of which still is a deep, dark secret and in which will be a hilarious satire by John Vlahos. John, that wry, Hellenic gent from Hollywood, has written another masterpiece, this one for the benefit of company Baker exclusively, and we can feel privileged. He's the one, remember, who has written several movies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

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