Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME published a letter signed by Willie Weaver of Curityba, Brazil, in which he refers to the gentleman from Illinois who had asked TIME (Nov. 30) for the location of a monastery to which he, tired of the world, might retire. I am not questioning Mr. Weaver's right to form an opinion of the man from Illinois; that is not our quarrel. When he sets out upon a haughty castigation of monasteries in general, however, I can but draw the inevitable conclusion: Willie's education has been sadly neglected...
...know what your correspondent, Willie Weaver of Curityba, Brazil, is doing in the jungles of South America, but I think someone should entice that gentleman to drop his facões and take...
...public house argument about metaphysics, he orders the chandelier to turn upside down. The chandelier does so. When Mr. Fotheringay lacks presence of mind to order it back into place, it falls on the floor and breaks. Thrown out of the saloon for conduct unbecoming to a gentleman, Mr. Fotheringay goes home to experiment with his new found knack. He conjures rabbits, kittens, gold watches and finally a bunch of grapes which he nibbles contentedly before he falls asleep...
...Nebraska D. X. established a reputation as coach and soft-spoken gentleman with a habit of smacking his lips as he talked. Biff Jones has the gallantry of an Army officer of the old school, without its starched aloofness...
...went to a very nice school where you called the principal "Father". He got a good education there, he met Hooker Beane, the son of the great international banker, and Jeremy Sloan, the heir to the great sugar-beet fortune, and he roomed with Weston, the brilliant young gentleman-rider...