Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic spectator who was in the Field of Mars on the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille was an Irish gentleman named Harman Blennerhassett. A native of County Kerry, a graduate of Dublin's Trinity College and a member of the Irish bar, he wandered the Continent for several years. Profoundly excited by the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau, Blennerhassett had been attracted to Paris, where he soon began intensively cultivating the taste for revolution and romanticism which was to be his ruin a few years later a few thousand miles away...
...gentleman with the 12 -gauge double-barrel shotgun. He is right where he belongs - with his posterior perched on a bench. With those shiny, tight-fitting riding boots I'll guarantee that if he is foolhardy enough to venture "up the trail," he'll need someone to carry him home. That type of boot is made for riding and not for walking...
...pappy-guy with the red mittens. An extended rabbit may be that long but that gesture would never describe any sort of an American game bird. Nope, that gentleman is obviously describing a fish and in doing so is committing an advertising sin - he is diverting attention from the theme of the ad - autumnal hunting. . . . Personally, I'm going to stick to plain gasoline...
Secretary of State Hull: Our foreign trade policy . . . has been a noble one -in the tradition of simon-pure old-fashioned Southern democracy. It has been conducted by a dependable gentleman of the old school, so stately, intelligent, kindly, honorable, and yet so firm . . . that it is hard to suggest that, in the circumstances, there might have been a better choice than Cordell Hull. . . . But in these hard-bitten days we needed a realist. . . . We had two outstanding Democratic world figures who answered that description-Bernard Baruch and Owen Young. ... On the economic side, our foreign policy is a failure...
Born in 1840 in Paris, Claude Monet was the dean of the Impressionists. He outlived all of them, thanks to his iron physique, died at the age of 86, a magnificent old gentleman with a silky white beard...