Word: gentlefolks
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...LADY OF FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-65-Cleone Knox- Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr-Appleton. (TIME, Feb. 15, BOOKS.) *Once famed as "the wittest high court judge in England." Recently retired after degenerating into what W.S. Gilbert called "that Nisi Prius nuisance, the Judicial humorist." †A few gentlefolk still vacation at this British equivalent of Atlantic City...
Upon Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann fell the responsibility of uttering honeyed words to the hotel tourists en masse. Diffident hotel gentlefolk blushed as Herr Stresemann cried: "You are the world's leaders in your line of business, and, indeed, one may ask wherein Americans are not leaders...
...respectably. Interesting and tense situations develop as the parents attempt to conceal their past relations from their true husband and wife. The girl's marriage to a mechanic is opposed but finally consent is gained from her guardian who is her father on condition that after six months among gentlefolk, her mind be unchanged. The mechanic holds her love to the end. The chief problem and development in the play is the concealment of the secret of the parents, its sudden revelation and the consequent forgiving of the guilty two. It is, in a way, an arraigment and condemnation...