Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should a clot of mustard lodged in the digestive apparatus of one splenetic old gentleman affect the well-being of millions...
...GENTLEMAN OVERBOARD-Herbert Clyde Lewis-Viking...
...sanctifying King George as a monarch, anointing him as a persona mixta (half priest, half layman) and inheritor of the divine right of kings. All through the three-hour ceremony, the most important person there was not the King, his nobles or his ministers, but a hawk-nosed old gentleman with a cream-&-gold cope who stood on a dais as King George approached: The Rt. Hon. and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D.. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...
...Artist and writer acquaintances talked freely but about two most vital subjects, Southern history and Negroes, they seemed "inhuman, almost mad." When he asked permission to go down in a coal mine the owner said: "We are only one company, and we don't wish to monopolize this gentleman's time. Why don't you go to another company and ask them to show you their mines?" Impeding his investigation of sharecroppers were the wary answers to his questions, the outspoken disapproval of the vigilantes (voiced by shooting at him and his companions of the Southern Tenant...
...laden with flowers along a road high above the sea looking towards the Bay of Naples just at sunrise . . . . A white goat kick a streamlined diesel engine which had just run over its baby . . . . In Rome one Sunday afternoon: A woman, ermine fur, Pekinese in arms, walking with a gentleman with top hat, cane; woman hesitates, looks round, gives dog to man and screws up big awning of grocery store...