Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor was a great comfort to me when she died. Whenever my courage faltered, or got tired of holding the chloroform bottle, he was always there with a word of encouragement or advice, always helpful, always a perfect gentleman...
...column, My Day, Mrs. Roosevelt told of a family party at the White House to celebrate her birthday, wrote about "a gentleman coming in to do some work" who later "played dance music for us." Since Mrs. Roosevelt's birthday party took place the night before the fireside chat. Columnist Westbrook Pegler acidly inquired...
...comes in at the White House to do some work and plays not only the piano but the accordion and the guitar . . .? Could it be Tommy Corcoran, White House Tommy, as they call him in Washington . . .? If this deduction be correct, it is proposed that next time after the gentleman who plays the piano has come in to do some work, the billing for the fireside chat be changed to read as follows: 'Thomas Corcoran will address his subjects on the state of the nation tonight through the courtesy of the broadcasting companies and the President of the United...
...except the defense were bewildered when Judge Dewell unexpectedly recessed the court because somebody hurt in an automobile accident was calling for the court stenographer. "No gentleman can object to this act of mercy," the judge pontificated. Still more bewildering was Judge Dewell's refusal to admit testimony that one of the defendant cops struck Shoemaker on the head with the butt of his pistol. The indictment, he pointed out, mentioned only injuries to "body and limbs." The defense did not bother to present a case. Granting a motion by the defense, Judge Dewell last week directed the completely...
...magnificence, it was a Golden Age gone tinsel without anyone quite realizing the change. Good and bad, wealth and poverty, freedom and tyranny seemed to have struck a permanent balance. It was a time of elaborate facades and filthy backstreets, of nearsighted perceptions and long-range emotions. If a gentleman, posting hastily through the slums, had a tear in his eye, it was not for the squalor and misery he saw around him, but for the sorrows of Goethe's best-selling Young Wertker. It was only a truism when Edward Gibbon, concluding on the eve of the French...