Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irate Joe Starnes of Guntersville, Ala. exclaimed last week upon the floor: "Two weeks ago he had the power to override one of the ablest members of the House of Representatives and his subcommittee-I refer to the gentleman from Virginia [Clifton Alexander Woodrum]. A week ago, according to the press, he came on the Hill and held a meeting in the office of the majority whip of the House, and yesterday he entered into the sanctum sanctorum, the office of the majority leader of this House, or the holy of holies. That is what the members of the House...
...private town house at No. 69 Eaton Square, set off for a three-week holiday in the country. A crowd of Londoners standing outside No. 10 cheered Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin loudly, gave a special yip when he declared with a smile and a wave, "I am now a gentleman-at-large...
...gentleman-at-large" had driven away from Buckingham Palace, another motor had passed him on the Mall going in the opposite direction. Sitting in it ramrod-stiff was hawk-nosed, sallow-skinned Chancellor of the Exchequer Arthur Neville Chamberlain...
...article then became fully explanatory: "[Opposition to Nazi anti-Semitism] is irreconcilable with the friendship that binds us to Germany." It looked as though Mussolini and Hitler, having promised to pool their common problems (TIME, May 17), had come to a gentleman's agreement whereby Mussolini would now give open support to Hitler's Jew-baiting...
...help, has the battered pilot carried to her house. The poor fellow is so badly smashed that at one point everybody but Rosamund and the reader give him up for dead. He comes around eventually, turns out to be 24, good-looking, extremely sensitive, an orphan, and a gentleman through and through. His name is Clive. After he and Rosamund have begun to fall in love, Clive is removed to a hospital. It devolves on Rosamund to tell him that he will always be blind...