Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaged couple were honored guests at the birthday banquet and the old gentleman beamed at them from the head of the table. Proud as Punch was the ex-Emperor at two telegrams of congratulation-so proud that he let his equerry tell the press about them. Both came from Britain. One was from the officers of the 1st The Royal Dragoons, whose honorary colonel he was till the War.* The other was from relatives who 22 years ago scorned him as unworthy of chivalry by having his banner, surcoat, helmet and sword removed from the chapel of the Order...
...that has hit possibilities. Zorina and the Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two elaborate dances, one a banal number, the other (high point of the picture) a superlatively beautiful water nymph dance in which Zorina, in skintight gold tunic, rises from the bottom of a fountain to astound a gentleman in dinner clothes. The Goldwyn girls, trade-mark of every Sam Goldwyn musical, appear only in the jazz v. classics ballet, are sorely missed thereafter...
...JUDAS WINDOW-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). The murder of an elderly gentleman, found stabbed with an arrow in an apparently sealed room, with Sir Henry Merrivale defending a suspect caught with the corpse and a good deal of bright dialogue compensating for weaknesses in the plot. Good...
...source of information used by you in the Jan. 10 issue of TIME, for we feel that there is a grave error somewhere. You said that Mr. C. D. White, our Mayor, once remarked that only "cheapskates" come to Atlantic City. Our Mayor is entirely too much of a gentleman to refer to any convention as a group of "cheapskates," and most certainly no person in this city in his right mind would so deliberately offend any organization...
...leather-faced council members and First Syndic (president) of the tiny 190-sq. mi. territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...