Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate much more than could be made at law. So down among the bars where he sometimes caroused between bouts of terrific hard work, word was passed around that "Big Steve" was out for sheriff. The Buffalo Courier cried: "He is at the same time so true a gentleman, so generous, modest and lovable a man that we have never heard of anybody's envying him. . . . His very name is a host...
Advising Governor Landon on agricultural matters is Earl Howard Taylor, a Kansan, who left the University of Nebraska in 1913 to take a newspaper job. Sixteen years an associate editor of The Cattle Gentleman, he is Chi Phi's most distinguished authority on rural life and the farmer...
...asserted that all men are free and equal, and then promptly turned around to draw up a constitution that heavily restricted the franchise. The only variance in the analogy as applied to Talleyrand is that he had no such deceitful principles as "equality" or "fraternity". He was a gentleman opportunist, whose skill and diplomacy not only proved a lucrative source for his own wealth, but profoundly benefited France herself...
...picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted that his organizers dress well and stop at the best hotels. Ed McGrady learned his lesson and today, elegant, with a good cigar in his mouth and the double-breasted manner of a gentleman of substance, he strides into strike conferences as Adolphe Menjou might, enter a ballroom...
While in Minnesota Swedes hold a gala country dance, big blond square-headed people singing and shouting and stamping and reeling. While in Vermont Ephraim Putney puts down "The Contry Gentleman" and rubs his eyes as he clumps in his loose old Congress gaiters up to bed. While in Florida a huge corps of painters, cleaning-women and janitors go over the Miami-Biltmore, working late to get ready for the coming rush. While overseas the bright young Mr. Eden scratches his head over the second major diplomatic crisis he has had to handle in a year. While Mussolini frowns...