Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face shaded by a broad fedora. Major Andrew Summers Rowan, 81, last week listened to a seven-gun salute in his honor on the lawn of Letterman General Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio (U. S. Army post). He also listened to a flowery speech by a gentleman in smoked glasses, Consul José Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate." At the end of it, Consul Zarza pinned a blue...
Last week "the Indiana situation" was resolved most remarkably, and whether he liked it or not, Franklin Roosevelt had little to do with it. The resolvers were Indiana's dumpy little senior Senator, Frederick Van Nuys (rhymes with geese), and an alarmingly handsome gentleman on the other side of the Earth, Philippine High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt...
...blackmail and kidnapping. This prompted Countess Barbara to have the Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted Count Haugwitz-Reventlow as saying ; as to the murder victim, he was to be a "gentleman of London," (left unnamed by agreement of opposing counsel) who would first be challenged to a duel, than shot down "like...
...authors, aged 17 to 18, because progressive education "is often misunderstood." In clear though slightly stiff language they told who they were (with charts)-a group with better than average intelligence, most with family incomes over $4,000. They also described their teachers-"a very unusual collection. . . . One gentleman spends his summers paddling around Europe in a canoe. . . . We have fine co-operation among our faculty. Some of our teachers have got along together so well that they have married...
...engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, is that 60% of the agreers are gentlemen, 30% just act like gentlemen and 10% neither are nor act like gentlemen. Result in the early years of the steel industry was that every price pool ended in price chaos. Then along came a gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into line any other company which disregarded his price policy. But open price-fixing...