Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rayburn: ". . . The gentleman can get that information from the Ways and Means Committee...
Catalogued by old, famed Sotheby's auction rooms in London as "The Property of a Gentleman, a well-known Collector," the Hearst hoard weighed 31,000 ounces or almost precisely one ton. Some of the pieces had been acquired as recently as six months ago. Most of them had been bought by high-bidding Hearst agents, once known as the most prominent silver buyers in London. Over a green baize table in Sotheby's quiet Bond Street rooms last week, red-faced Auctioneer Major Felix Walter Warre sold all 86 items to nodding, winking bidders...
...This Gentleman turned up in Barranquilla in late July 1936 with his then Model T Sedan, and two pals. We learned that he had crossed Colombia, from Ecuador on excellent highways as far as the upper Magdalena River, from where his conveyance floated down the River on a very comfortable steamer for approximately 900 kilometers, landing him in Barranquilla, where he covered several of his kilometers on concrete city streets...
Many years ago, a gentleman from Princeton took occasion to remind a Harvard audience that the American flag was a flag of revolt, that only perpetual revolt could bring consistent progress. Today Mr. Wilson is dead, but the Harvard department of Americana is trying to carry on this tradition of denying tradition...
...Minister of Norway, the Norwegian Minister and his wife. They were lunching with the President. . . ." Mrs. Roosevelt would have had a long wet drive had she indeed gone to see the Prime Minister of Norway, Johan Nygaardsvold, for he was last week attending to his business in Oslo. The gentleman with whom Mrs. Roosevelt chatted was Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Halvdan Koht, who is visiting the U. S. to confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull about a new trade treaty with his fatherland, and to give a series of lectures at Harvard and Columbia. A kindly...