Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nerves, and had a fistula in one eye." Able at 12 to recite Pope's Homer and the Arabian Nights, he was soon so deep in Roman history that he resented mealtime, could not go to sleep for thinking about discrepant history dates. Sent to Oxford as a gentleman scholar at 15. he had "no duties and many privileges." Discovering that nobody minded if he cut classes, he spent most of the school year traveling, studied in the summer. Kicked out of Oxford for joining the Catholic Church, he was turned over to a freethinker in Switzerland, where...
Having escaped the net of a conventional English education, Anglican religious drill, sports, the life of a country gentleman, marriage, and having enough money to avoid hack work but not enough to become a dilettante. Gibbon's last blessing in disguise (for history's sake, of course, says the biographer) was his failure as a politician. Elected to Parliament two years before the first volume of his history appeared. Gibbon fell in line with Tory policy regarding the American colonies; privately, and especially after reports of the first American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero...
...bludgeoning Revolution. With the then British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps vigorous Mr. Gordon teamed and they were long the only two diplomats in Berlin who stickled for their nationals' rights and stood up to the Nazis. They are credited with having persuaded that non-Nazi German gentleman, Baron Constantin von Neurath, that it was his duty to stay on as Foreign Minister when, upset by the havoc Nazis were playing with the traditions of the German Foreign Office, the Baron had determined to resign...
Senator. They was all excited." Officer George Higgins, when confronted with a picture of himself manhandling a woman, cried: "I didn't strike her. Like a gentleman I shoved...
...tall, heavy-hung gentleman in his seventies yet surprisingly quick-stepping, got off a train at Winslow, Ariz, one day last week and boarded a plane for San Simeon, Calif. It was the Lord...