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Word: gentleman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wednesday-The Captain made proposals to me unbecoming an officer and a gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Both girls had on flapping sandals which they said a "stage-door Johnny" had given them one night. The gentleman in question being in somewhat drunken condition, had allowed them to take their pick in his shoe store, they said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorines Visiting in Cambridge Agree Hitch-Hiking is Better in New Haven | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...BLUNT INSTRUMENT - Georgette Heyer - Crime Club ($2). A blunt instrument finishes the philandering of a well-to-do English gentleman. Notable for amusing, effortless dialogue, engaging characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...tide against which Mr. Downey now fights is led by another lawyer and reader of economics, a man whose father sold the University of California its history library and who was known in his younger days as a Progressive: Philip Bancroft, a harmless-looking but sharp-spoken gentleman-farmer from in back of Mount Diablo near Oakland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Men Under the Moon | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...week gets cautiously down on its hands and knees to play with the moppets of America: It issues the first monthly number of Jack and Jill for a predominantly illiterate public, children aged ten and under. Only addition to the roster of Curtis magazines since 1911 when the Country Gentleman was purchased, and latest product of the Curtis Co.'s ambition to service the American Family from top to bottom, the November issue of Jack and Jill (40,000 copies) runs to 48 seven-by-ten-inch pages, illustrated with single-color drawings, price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jack and Jill | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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