Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year: Dr. Eduard Benes. At all times he acted like a gentleman; never screamed, never lost his dignity...
With the unexpected presence in London last week of a cultured Balkan gentleman, it began to look as though Neville Chamberlain had discarded a winning hand before the showdown and might pick it up again...
...George Parmly Day, the treasurer of Yale, expects to pay part of the university's expenses from unexpected legacies. He was therefore both surprised and not surprised when he picked up his paper one morning last week and learned that a rich old gentleman who had never shown any interest in the university's management and who had not been in New Haven in six years had left Yale some...
Host and honoree at this affair was a remarkable man of 81. His Thanksgiving Day visitors saw a big, ruddy gentleman who expects people to believe that he and his workers really love each other. George F. went to work in a shoe shop when he was 13, borrowed $150,000 when he was 25 to buy into the embryo of his present business. He still talks of himself as a worker. Every morning when he is at home (he winters in Florida) he crams a golf cap on his balding grey head, drives himself to an E. J. factory...
...Scenes in Washington") appeared regularly in 750 newspapers, more than any other syndicated column in the world. At the National Press Club's annual dinner in Washington last week (see p. p), President Roosevelt praised twelve newspapermen as "objective" reporters, singled out Rodney Butcher in particular as a "gentleman of the press...