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Word: gentleman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman and a Christian," retorted Mr. Haake, onetime Congregationalist minister, "I tell you that you are an unqualified liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Ghost's Curse | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...face. Old enough to be her father, hoary Mr. Lansbury remained seated where Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test" to have more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parliament's Week: The Commons: | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Dear Nancy: I joined a nudist colony near Paris. . . . While there, a scholarly, paunchy old gentleman clad only in a pince-nez, read Hudson's Green Mansions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dear Nancy | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Dear Nancy: I'm a 20-year-old coed. .. . He's 24, fine looking and a perfect gentleman to all appearances. . . . He has been telling me that nine out of every ten girls permit undue familiarities from their men friends. . . . I told him he had only come across isolated cases and nine-tenths of the women were straight shooters. Now, Nancy, who is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dear Nancy | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...King's Counsel for the Daily Express, Sir Patrick Hastings, cross-examined Dr. Hanfstaengl last week with a view to adducing that his language is often intemperate. "I am suggesting to you," purred Sir Patrick, "that directly people asked you questions about Communists you were no longer the gentleman you appear now. You were a domineering autocratic and rather bad-tempered gentleman at the head of an office saying that Communists were swine and that if they did not behave themselves they would be shot." ''Not so," replied Putzy. ''Did you not also," Sir Patrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sorrows of a Hanfstaengl | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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