Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina, pausing in his oration, "I'm sorry if I have disturbed the gentleman...
Said Cabot Lodge blushing, "The gentleman should not be so eloquent...
George Horace Lorimer was editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1899 to Dec. 31, 1936. He was a man who looked like a bulldog and he ran the Post from stem to stern, finally becoming president of the whole Curtis group (Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) when the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis resigned in 1932. Last week's year-end board meeting seemed strange without Mr. Lorimer. It brought together at a dramatic moment the men (it took more than one man to succeed George Horace Lorimer) who twelve months ago took charge...
...Post, thought he might be permitted at least a small crow. Older & sportier than the run of undergraduates, Fred Healy had a legendary good time at the University of Illinois. When he left there in 1914 he sold automobile accessories for a while, in 1917 became a Country Gentleman ad solicitor out of the Chicago office. He was the first to suggest that Curtis set up headquarters in Detroit to handle the rapidly growing automobile accounts, became head of that office in 1925 and originated $10,000,000 worth of business (70% automotive) in 1928. That interested Mr. Lorimer...
...Brewster: I did not confine it to this Administration. If the gentleman makes the application, that is up to him. It is a question of the coat fitting...