Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter's this year's twin is signed, "Dr. Ernest A. Graupner," although I am not even acquainted with the gentleman. Frankly, I am in a dilemma. Should I turn this matter over to Ripley or to the District Attorney...
...city line, where they were dumped with a stern lecture. Some promptly returned and were arrested. One Workers' Defense League observer was seized and searched, and when he asked the plainclothesman to identify himself, received the reproving answer: "Why don't you want to be a gentleman?" At the subsequent hearings even reporters and photographers were searched before they were allowed to enter the courtroom...
Advocating a tournament for Freshmen in the spring, the magazine reports an assault on the ladder boards in the Union by a "certain gay young gentleman on the evening of the Freshman dance...
Less capable of high jinks, less disposed to trifle with ideas of doom, Poet Auden throughout his travels takes an English Gentleman's slightly proprietary interest in good nature and good sense wherever he may find them. Among the Icelanders he finds considerable good nature and a general sanity too unmitigated to be of much current use to a loyal inhabitant of contemporary Europe. But Poet Auden is not so loyal to Europe as to deny the notion-suggested by the sight of Icelanders clumsily gallivanting at a country fair-that plain human nature is the essential thing...
...Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married the heir to Knole, first cousin Lionel Sackville-West, shy, quiet. the perfect English country gentleman, five years her junior...