Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone here admired and respected him far too much to hate him. His esteemed leadership and friendly advice touched, indeed, everyone in the school, but especially the members of the sixth form, who in many different ways came into a closer contact with this true Christian gentleman...
...Embassy in Grosvenor Square, the Ambassador cocked his feet up on his highly-polished desk, to the satisfaction of Britons who always thought the "English gentleman" manners of his predecessor, the late Robert Worth Bingham, somewhat pretentious. Joe Kennedy proceeded to go for a ride on a "rented horse," played golf (see p. 28), shook hands with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...they married? Would they be? To all such impertinences, Stokowski firmly refused an answer. "I never talk about personal things," he said. Swedish Author Dr. Axel Munthe was more informative. Greta had called at his Capri home for tea that very afternoon. Accompanying her, he said, had been "a gentleman named Stokowski, whom I do not know, but who looked like a Pole...
...Farley and the boys are not content with profaning the name of America's first gentleman and alienating the country's philatelists against he who claims to be the number one stamp collector as well as the first man of America. In a paltry appeal to the women's vote, they have chosen to make Martha Washington half again as valuable as her worthy spouse. Thomas Jefferson, whose name rests on his plan for sending Black Fact Indians to Harvard, is given the coveted three-cent berth. And with grim irony Benjamin Franklin, who enjoyed the title of Post master...
Today, this important gentleman is 30, robust and an inch taller than the six foot three he was when his Father took office. A model young man, his industry and ambition permit him few bad habits, and his stomach trouble permits no more than an occasional highball. Instead, he gulps down three quarts of milk daily. Unlike his father, who consumes three or four packages of cigarets each 24 hours, James smokes sparingly, usually not before dinner...