Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great academician, Pope had been president of the American Academy in Rome since 1933. An amiable and elegant gentleman, he lived in Newport in a low, rambling mansion which he designed and called "The Weaves." The afternoon of his daughter Jane's party in 1933 he amazed swank Newport by opening his house to the public...
...here in the presence of the gentleman who spoke on the radio last night and in the presence of those Democrats who are likely to be candidates for office in 1938, the sooner we get that man out of the position he now occupies by virtue of the acquiescence of his fellows, the better it will be for the Democratic party. . . ." Later, when a petition to remove Senator Guffey as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was being circulated, Senator Barkley revealed he had submitted his resignation a week before...
...chatter today of reactionaries conservatives, liberals, and radicals. . . . A 'reactionary' in ordinary times is a gentleman who wants to re-establish the status quo ante. The New Deal wants to do precisely that-as a matter of fact it is status quo George III or Diocletian. The process has not attained the label of 'liberal.' . . . They are dumdum words used to assassinate men and then to plant bitter onions on their graves...
...looked up Mr. Eustace Tilley this week, on the eve of his departure from the city-his 'maiden' departure, as he pointed out. The elegant old gentleman was found in his suite at the Plaza, his portmanteau packed, his mourning doves wrapped in clotted swiss, his head in a sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied...
...skit with Artist Russell Patterson's puppets, including the leering little gentleman from the covers of Esquire, vying with Comedian Ben Blue for the attentions of two skirted and rouged puppets...