Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long before I reached Delegate Dimond's identification of Wilbur Pledge Brown, I had identified the gentleman as Wilbur Pledge, phoney-check artist and alleged newspaper...
...entire story of my meeting with that estimable gentleman at a cafeteria on Broadway some two months ago, our riotous evening together, and his subsequent disappearance with every cent I had, would be too long to go into here. ... I may say, though, that in the course of the evening we bought a copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer of May 17 in which there was published an article on the Matanuska Valley colony by this eminent authority on the subject. Too, he showed me numerous articles of the same nature which he had written, and which he had planned...
Earl H. ("Zack") Taylor, 45, has been Governor Landon's agricultural consultant since last April. A longtime student of farmers' woes as chief editorial writer for The Country Gentleman, he had hitherto kept aloof from political schemes for their salvation. Short, stocky, argumentative Adviser Taylor was born on a Kansas farm, studied business law at University of Nebraska, worked on the Kansas City Star before going to The Country Gentleman in 1920. There he distinguished himself not only by studying and thinking harder about farmers than anyone else on the staff, but also by keeping on tap some...
...Buchanan & Campbell Stephen. This was voted, 248-to-53. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resumed his interrupted speech, and all seemed about to go off smoothly when Frederick Seymour Cocks of the Labor Party rose to face Sir John and declare in calm, measured tones: "This Right Honorable Gentleman we all know to be a liar...
Ever since Pilsudski's death last year, the Polish Government has tried to convince the Polish people that Rydz-Smigly is a man of the same stern, lusty stripe. Actually Rydz-Smigly is a polite, modest gentleman with a bald head, whose thin lips are his only evidence of severity. Before he joined the revolutionary Pilsudski Legion in 1914, he was an art student, specializing in landscapes...